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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Murder in the First Degree.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Jeff Miller, who loans Tommy Ward a pickup truck to go get more beer the night Denice Haraway goes missing?
(a) Gary Rogers.
(b) Jannette Roberts.
(c) Tricia Wolf.
(d) Karl Fontenot.

2. Who has worked 22 years of his life at Hazel Atlas Glass Container Company?
(a) Jesse Ward.
(b) Joel Ward.
(c) Jimmy Ward.
(d) Melvin Ward.

3. Who is the gnarled black woman who is feared by the children of Ada?
(a) Nigger Sairy.
(b) Terry Hull.
(c) Linda Thompson.
(d) Melva Ward.

4. Jesse Ward dies from __________.
(a) A heart attack.
(b) Cancer.
(c) A car accident.
(d) Lung disease.

5. What do the OSBI technicians use to sift through debris from the burned down house?
(a) Window screens.
(b) Water strainers.
(c) Nylon stockings.
(d) Salt shakers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Detective Captain Dennis Smith supplement his income?

2. According to the narrator, whose sister disappeared a year before Denice Haraway went missing?

3. Jesse Ward plants a __________ tree the day he marries Susie Ward.

4. What information does Officer Kyle Gibbs fail to receive from Lenny Timmons' emergency phone call?

5. Whose favorite expression is "listen to me, runnin' my mouth ninety-to-nothin'" ?

(see the answer key)

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