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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes to visit Catherine at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Leila.
(b) Randall.
(c) Sally.
(d) Tom.

2. What is the name of Martin Barnes' daughter?
(a) Sally.
(b) Mary.
(c) Julie.
(d) Betty.

3. Who took Catherine's statement at the sheriff's office?
(a) Percy Eakins.
(b) Sheriff Galton.
(c) Carl Perkins.
(d) Mary Jane Cory.

4. What type of tree does Catherine park her car under at the tenant shack?
(a) Maple.
(b) Oak.
(c) Cherry.
(d) Elm.

5. What is the name of the deputy whose job it is to take pictures of the scene?
(a) Percy.
(b) Paul.
(c) Samson.
(d) Mike.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of book is Catherine halfway through when the murder takes place?

2. Who does the dispatcher call in while Catherine is in the sheriff's office?

3. Why did Catherine feel obligated to be kind to the new doctor in Lowfield?

4. What did Catherine call her father's nurse as a child?

5. How does Catherine feel when she wakes up the morning after finding the dead body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the exchange between Percy Eakins and Catherine like at the sheriff's office as he takes her statement? Who does Percy turn out to be and how does this affect Catherine?

2. Who does Catherine receive a call from while she is on her lunch break on Tuesday? What does this person accuse Catherine of and what is her response?

3. Why doesn't Catherine stop at either of the two houses on the dirt road to ask for help?

4. What does Catherine tell Randall that she wants for her parents? What does this say about her part in the novel?

5. How is the relationship of Catherine and Randall advanced by the dramatic situation they find themselves in after Leona's and then Tom's death?

6. What is the procedure at the crime scene as explained by Sheriff Galton?

7. What do we learn about the death of Catherine's parents in Chapter 4? How does it connect with Leona Gaites?

8. Who does Randall fear that Leona may have blackmailed and why? How would Leona have gotten this information?

9. What information does Betty Eakins give to Catherine that could possibly help Catherine solve the crime?

10. What is Catherine's own idea of her present image in Lowfield and how does she feel about it?

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