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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Carl wake up in a cold sweat?
(a) Thinking Sandy is going to turn herself and him in.
(b) Worried about an article he reads in Minnesota.
(c) Thinking that the last victim wasn't really dead.
(d) Thinking that Lee is on to them.

2. What does Arvin secretly wish?
(a) His mother would hurry and get well so Arvin could have a dog.
(b) His mother would get well but his father would die.
(c) His mother would just die.
(d) His father would send Arvin away for good.

3. Where is Hank Bell?
(a) In Mitchell's Flat.
(b) In Dunlap's Flat.
(c) In Remockstaff.
(d) In Knockemstiff.

4. About what does Dunlap hint among his friends?
(a) That he'd like to run for State Senate.
(b) That he hired a man to kill his law partner.
(c) That he'd like to have sex with Charlotte.
(d) That he'd like to move to the city.

5. What is Willard doing?
(a) Toasting a good friend.
(b) Resting in the sun after using the scythe for several hours.
(c) Checking the fetlock on one of the horses.
(d) Praying.

6. Who says she is going to marry Roy?
(a) Emma.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Helen.
(d) No one.

7. What does Carl make hitchhikers think?
(a) That Carl is impotent.
(b) That Carl thinks of them like a father.
(c) That Carl will kill them if they don't have sex with his wife.
(d) That Sandy is going to kill herself if she does not have sex soon.

8. Who greets Willard when he arrives home?
(a) His mother and his two sisters.
(b) No one.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother and uncle.

9. What does Hank give Arvin?
(a) A chocolate bar.
(b) A free soda.
(c) A bag of licorice.
(d) Nothing.

10. Who is the first hitchhiker mentioned in Chapter 10?
(a) A young girl.
(b) A hippie.
(c) An old drunk.
(d) A soldier.

11. Where is Willard going?
(a) Coal Creek, Virginia.
(b) Differ, West Virginia.
(c) Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
(d) Wakeman, Georgia.

12. What does Bodecker recall about a night he passed out drunk?
(a) Sandy tells him about her and Carl's trip.
(b) Sandy drives him home.
(c) Sandy takes his money.
(d) Sandy tells him she is going to kill herself.

13. What does Arvin watch Willard do?
(a) Buys Arvin's mother a bolt of silk.
(b) Savagely beat the man who admired Willard's wife.
(c) Cheats a man out of some money.
(d) Buys the farmer's extra bull.

14. About what do some of Dunlap's friends warn him?
(a) Willard's temper.
(b) Charlotte's fidelity.
(c) That he's told too many people about the law partner and the suspicion would fall on Dunlap.
(d) That he'd be getting the current State Senator as an enemy.

15. With what does Willard become obsessed after learning of Charlotte's illness?
(a) Buying the house for Charlotte.
(b) Saving Charlotte through prayer.
(c) Making Charlotte's last year wonderful.
(d) Getting the best medical care for Charlotte.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sandy think she got a venereal disease?

2. About what does Dunlap taunt Willard?

3. About what is Hank fantasizing?

4. What does Arvin say does not work?

5. What does Sandy do with the first hitchhiker mentioned?

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