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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Carriscant crosses a field on his way home?
(a) He is accosted by a large Irish wolfhound.
(b) He falls into a wild boar trap.
(c) He is nearly shot by some women with bows.
(d) He falls and twists his ankle.

2. Why is Kay wanting to sell her house?
(a) To avoid complete financial collapse.
(b) She wants to move to Maine.
(c) She has never liked it.
(d) It reminds her too much of her ex-husband.

3. What does Pantaleon lack?
(a) Guile.
(b) Finesse.
(c) Backing.
(d) Ambition.

4. What food does Carriscant say he likes?
(a) Steak.
(b) Squid.
(c) Lobster.
(d) Fish.

5. What does Cruz refuse to do?
(a) Go with them to the hospital morgue.
(b) Hand over the body.
(c) Give them his fingerprints.
(d) Go with them to see the Constable.

6. How old is Kay when the novel opens?
(a) 32.
(b) 28.
(c) 44.
(d) 52.

7. Why do Bobby and Carriscan travel to Cruz's house?
(a) To ask his advice.
(b) To recover Ward's body.
(c) To gain his fingerprints.
(d) To force a confession.

8. Who is Eric Meyersen?
(a) Kay's best friend's husband.
(b) Kay's brother.
(c) A detective.
(d) Kay's ex-business partner.

9. What does Carriscant often think of doing?
(a) Getting out of the practice of law.
(b) Visiting a prostitute.
(c) Leaving his wife and son.
(d) Killing his wife.

10. Carriscant says he met Annaliese Leys _______________.
(a) In Malaysia.
(b) In Scotland.
(c) In China.
(d) In the Philippines.

11. For what does Kay use a scalpel?
(a) To open a package that arrives for her.
(b) To carve a model of a building she is designing.
(c) To carve her initials in a tree.
(d) To make an incision in Carriscant's arm.

12. Why does Carriscant need Kay's assistance?
(a) To arrange a meeting with Kay's mother.
(b) To find his son.
(c) To find a man in Los Angeles.
(d) To help him get a green card.

13. About what does Carriscant not seem surprised?
(a) Kay's mother saying Hugh is Kay's father.
(b) Kay not wanting to have any contact with him.
(c) Kay joining him for lunch.
(d) Kay's mother is remarried.

14. What does Philip say he has done?
(a) Gotten a good-paying job.
(b) Become engaged.
(c) Gotten married.
(d) Paid the IRS.

15. What type of barn has Pantaleon built?
(a) Nipa.
(b) Feed barn.
(c) Gable.
(d) Tobacco.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kay's biological father's occupation according to Kay's mother?

2. What does Kay infer about Philip during their marriage?

3. What appeared in a magazine article in 1927?

4. How does Carriscant view Cruz professionally?

5. Where does Kay's mother say Kay was born?

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