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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. Which of the two defendants, Ward and Fontenot, does Karen Wise positively identify in Chapter 7?
(a) Karl Fontenot.
(b) Both Ward and Fontenot.
(c) Tommy Ward.
(d) Neither Ward nor Fontenot.

2. Who writes, "I had a dream that I was at a keg party, then poof I was sitting in a pickup with two guys and a girl"?
(a) Jason Lurke.
(b) Karl Fontenot.
(c) Bud Wolf.
(d) Tommy Ward.

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

4. What is the name of the adopted child of Tricia and Bud Wolf who is known as the "Christmas child"?
(a) Emma.
(b) Dakota.
(c) Christy.
(d) Lisa.

5. Who is Barney Ward?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) Tommy Ward's brother.
(c) Tommy Ward's uncle.
(d) An Ada police officer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the phrase "corpus delicti" in a murder case refer to?

2. Who decides to defend Tommy Ward in the Denice Haraway murder trial?

3. Which Commandment from the Bible does Tommy Ward quote?

4. How many days after Ward and Fontenot are arrested are they formally charged?

5. According to the austere law books in regards to a murder trial, you do not need a body if __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What alibi does Tommy Ward give to police in Chapter 2 about his whereabouts the night Denice Haraway went missing?

4. Why do detectives dismiss Tommy Ward as a potential suspect in the disappearance of Denice Haraway in Chapter 2?

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

6. What does Richard Kerner say is his reason for always wearing a business suit in Chapter 9?

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

8. Why is Odell Titsworth dismissed as a suspect in Chapter 4?

9. How did Tricia Ward meet Bud Wolf?

10. Describe the character of Jannette Roberts. Why are detectives interested in speaking with her in Chapter 3?

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