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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 is Qwilleran thinking about when he goes to bed after leaving the bar?
(a) Where Koko goes at night.
(b) The tire tracks at Ellsworth House.
(c) The Press Club dinner.
(d) The dust swirls in the theatre.

2. What distracts Qwilleran as he unfolds the piece of foil the cats have left for him?
(a) Someone is pounding on his door.
(b) Firetrucks come rushing into Junktown.
(c) Yum Yum goes crazy running around the apartment.
(d) Koko accidentally turns on the tape player.

3. Which character in the novel has "an expensive sound system"?
(a) Hollis Prantz.
(b) Russell Patch.
(c) Ben Nicholas.
(d) Cluthra.

4. How do the cats behave when Qwilleran and Mary almost kiss?
(a) By disappearing from Qwilleran's apartment.
(b) By jumping up on Qwilleran and Mary.
(c) With an outburst of hissing and yowling.
(d) By hiding under the bed.

5. What mystery is solved after Qwilleran and Mary find the secret space?
(a) How the cats get into Ben's apartment.
(b) How C. C. was able to move the candle.
(c) Why strange sounds happen during the night.
(d) When the house was built.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Qwilleran first try to discover who the drug dealer is?

2. How does Qwilleran make his manuscript discovery?

3. When someone comes in asking for horse braces, what are they really looking for?

4. What do Qwilleran and Mary discover in his apartment?

5. As Qwilleran begins reading Andy's manuscript, what becomes clear?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Qwilleran and Mary move the bookshelf in his apartment?

2. What is interesting about the pattern of the sole of Russell Patch's boots?

3. How does Qwilleran mistake the source of the things Koko brings to him?

4. What arrangement does Qwilleran make with Mary?

5. What was C. C. supposedly looking for in the Ellsworth house?

6. Explain who Qwilleran suspects of having gone to the Ellsworth House.

7. What arrangement does Qwilleran make with Ben Nicolas?

8. Why does Mary seem much happier when Qwilleran sees her after C. C.'s murder?

9. What is the evidence Qwilleran discovers outside the Ellsworth House?

10. How does Braun draw out the suspense with Qwilleran's reading of Andy's manuscript?

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