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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 left the beer in Catherine's refrigerator?
(a) Carl.
(b) Tom.
(c) Mary Jane.
(d) Betty.

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

3. What is the name of the librarian?
(a) Mrs. Weilenmann.
(b) Mrs. Lowton.
(c) Mrs. Whitman.
(d) Mrs. Johnson.

4. What was the name of Catherine's mother?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Vera.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Mary Ann.

5. What does Catherine do at the end of Chapter 1 that enables her steady her nerves?
(a) She takes deep breaths.
(b) She screams.
(c) She drinks a beer.
(d) She has a cigarette.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Catherine's neighbors?

2. Who is Molly Perkins?

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

4. What does Catherine first notice when she looks in the door of the tenant house?

5. Who comes to visit Catherine at the end of Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Catherine notice about Carl Perkins' appearance in Chapter 9? What does she assume it has to do with?

2. What is the exchange between Catherine and the sheriff like and how does Catherine feel about this?

3. Why do people feel so comfortable confiding their secrets to Catherine? How does Catherine feel about the secrets of the town and being the one they are told to?

4. Why do Randall and Tom both pay Catherine a visit at her house after she comes home from the sheriff's office on the day she finds the body?

5. What happens between Randall and Catherine at her house after she comes home from the sheriff's office on the day she finds the body?

6. What is the manner of Leona's death? Where does she die? Where does she ultimately end up and why does the sheriff think she was moved?

7. Describe the change in Catherine's character in Chapter 11? Does her personality seem to change at all? Who notices?

8. When does Catherine figure out who the killer is? How?

9. Why does Molly Perkins visit Catherine? What does Catherine thinks she wants and how does Catherine respond toward her?

10. Who does the body that Catherine discovers turn out to be and why is the sheriff disturbed at the discovery?

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