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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Arvin visit the next day after his encounter with Carl and Sandy?
(a) The church.
(b) The Wooden Mermaid.
(c) The White Cow.
(d) The Wooden Spoon.

2. About what does Sandy fantasize?
(a) Killing herself after killing Carl.
(b) Letting Arvin live.
(c) Shooting Carl and taking off with Arvin.
(d) Arvin falling in love with her.

3. What is the phone call about to Bodecker?
(a) Finding Teagardin's corpse.
(b) The death of Emma.
(c) The burning of the house where Arvin used to live.
(d) Finding Arvin's body.

4. Where are Roy and Theodore?
(a) In Key West hawking drugs.
(b) In a traveling carnival.
(c) In jail.
(d) In a wild west show.

5. Who is Cynthia?
(a) Theodore's sister.
(b) The waitress at the White Cow.
(c) Roy's sister.
(d) Pastor Teagardin's wife.

6. What picture does Carl put in his wallet?
(a) The young soldier just before he comes into Sandy.
(b) Sandy nude and tied spread eagled.
(c) His mother dying.
(d) Sandy cradling the head of the model.

7. Where is Pastor Teagardin meeting his parishioners?
(a) At a potluck dinner.
(b) At the parrish hall after church.
(c) While sitting in the diner.
(d) At a beach party.

8. What is one thing Theodore dreams?
(a) Of living in the mountains.
(b) Of Leonora.
(c) Of returning home and seeing his mama.
(d) Of Flapjack the Clown.

9. What reason does Carl give for turning down a side road?
(a) He thinks it is a shortcut.
(b) He is lost.
(c) He knows the farmer at the end of the road.
(d) He has to pee.

10. What is the Prophet and the Picker?
(a) A pamphlet that Emma reads daily.
(b) A book Roy writes.
(c) The name of Roy and Theodore's act.
(d) A book Theodore finds and becomes obsessed about.

11. Who does Lenora want to be like?
(a) Helen.
(b) Emma.
(c) Sandy.
(d) Herself.

12. What does the visitor tell Sandy?
(a) About Lee's problems with drugs
(b) About Joe's unpopularity.
(c) About Lenora's need for a job.
(d) About Carl's activities while she's working.

13. What does Sandy do after Arvin is out of the car?
(a) Asks him to kill her.
(b) Asks him to call the sheriff.
(c) Fires her gun at him.
(d) Asks him to run away with him.

14. What does Jamie plan to do when he is with Carl and Sandy?
(a) Blackmail them.
(b) Steal their car.
(c) Steal some money from them.
(d) Kill them.

15. What does Earskill suggest about the Luger?
(a) Arvin give it back to Earskill.
(b) Arvin learn how to use it correctly.
(c) Arvin put it away for a while.
(d) Arvin give it to Lenora for protection.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is pictured as thin and pale in an unbecoming bonnet?

2. What does Arvin first note about Carl and Sandy?

3. What does Carl watch Sandy do when she gets home?

4. What career does Carl try to break into in California?

5. How is Theodore?

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