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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. How much money does Melvin Ward give Tricia Wolf after returning home to Ada?
(a) $20000.
(b) $2000.
(c) $20.
(d) $200.

2. All of the following are reasons why detectives are convinced Tommy Ward killed Denice Haraway, EXCEPT which one?
(a) Ward has a piece of Denice Haraway's hair on his shirt.
(b) Ward seems nervous.
(c) Ward changes his alibi.
(d) The composite sketch looks like Ward.

3. Of all the Ward children, who is called the "runt of the litter"?
(a) Melva Ward.
(b) Tommy Ward.
(c) Joel Ward.
(d) Tricia Ward.

4. According to the austere law books in regards to a murder trial, you do not need a body if __________.
(a) There are no suspects.
(b) The suspect does not have an alibi.
(c) The circumstantial evidence is strong enough.
(d) Someone confesses to the murder.

5. What does Frank Dicus tell Richard Kerner in regards to the Haraway case?
(a) He saw Tommy Ward leaving the burned-out houses covered in blood.
(b) He heard Karl Fontenot talking to Lurke about kidnapping Haraway.
(c) That there were two burned-out houses and the police searched the wrong one.
(d) He saw Fontenot and Ward shoot Haraway in the head.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bud Wolf bring to Tommy Ward before Ward leaves for Eastern State Hospital?

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

3. Who aids Attorney Don Wyatt with his research on the Haraway case?

4. Who suggests to Tommy Ward that he should tell the authorities that he was at McAnally's, but he left before anything happened to Denice Haraway?

5. What type of pet does Miz Ward own?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Richard Kerner and what kind of relationship does he have with Don Wyatt?

2. According to the narrator, what was the turning point in the Ward family?

3. What information does Jeff Miller give to Detective Dennis Smith at the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. In Chapter 8, how does Bud Wolf feel after he begins to recall the times that he and Tommy Ward had shared?

5. Why is Detective Dennis Smith's theory about Denice Haraway being dumped into a manhole dismissed by the sewer department?

6. What two things are District Attorney Bill Peterson trying to establish through the four young witnesses who are a part of Ada's "running crowd"?

7. Who is in the small courtroom at the opposite end of the hallway in the beginning of Chapter 8? Why are they in the courtroom?

8. Describe Debbie Carter's murder case as describe by the narrator.

9. Describe Tommy Ward's relationship with his father as seen in the essay Ward wrote for Don Wyatt in Chapter 8.

10. What connection does District Attorney Bill Peterson make between his father's death and the Haraway case?

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