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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. What do people in David's community whisper about his father, Stephen's, death?
(a) That the police had covered up the truth about it.
(b) That it was murder.
(c) That it was suicide.
(d) That it had been faked and Stephen was still alive.

2. In Chapter Nineteen, who does David take for a walk after Shauna leaves?
(a) Linda.
(b) Chloe.
(c) T. J.
(d) Sheriff Lowell.

3. Why does David call Briggs Penitentiary in Chapter Fourteen?
(a) He wants to meet KillRoy and question him about Elizabeth.
(b) He wants to turn himself in.
(c) He wants to hire someone to kill Griffin Scope.
(d) He wants to hire someone to kill Hoyt.

4. Which of the following is not a reason Carlson doubts KillRoy's guilt in Elizabeth's murder?
(a) Elizabeth was branded after death unlike other victims.
(b) Elizabeth has defense wounds unlike other victims.
(c) KillRoy got other victims in more public places than the lake.
(d) KillRoy says he's innocent.

5. In Chapter Fifteen, what does Larry Gandle begin to wonder about the attack on the Becks at Lake Charmaine eight years earlier?
(a) If anyone witnessed the attack.
(b) If David recognized his attackers.
(c) If the attackers left any evidence of their identities.
(d) If David was not the only survivor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who awaits Vic Letty in his home when he returns from checking his mailbox?

2. What does Shauna do for a living?

3. How affluent is the part of town in which David works?

4. Who is Gary Lamont?

5. What mysterious initials does David find in Elizabeth's day planner in Chapter Fourteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does medical examiner Timothy Harper provide David in Chapter Twenty-One?

2. Why does Shauna hire Hester Crimstein, and about what does Hester warn Shauna in Chapter Thirteen?

3. What is David's relationship with Shauna?

4. Who is Killroy and what tie does he supposedly have to Elizabeth?

5. What strange email message does David get in Chapter One, and what does this message indicate?

6. Who is Griffin Scope, and what are his ties to the community in which David lives?

7. Describe what happens to David and Elizabeth at Lake Charmaine eight years before Chapter One of the book begins.

8. Why does David ask Hoyt about the day he identified Elizabeth's body and what condition the body was in at the time, and what does Hoyt's evasiveness about these questions imply?

9. What evidence in the first five chapters of the book makes David think Elizabeth is still alive?

10. Where does David take his dog, Chloe, in Chapter Nineteen and what information does he glean from a computer there?

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