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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. Who gives Karl Fontenot a Christmas basket of fruit and candy?
(a) Judge Powers.
(b) Detective Captain Dennis Smith.
(c) Attorney Don Wyatt.
(d) Tricia Wolf.

2. How does District Attorney Peterson's father die?
(a) He dies of cancer.
(b) He dies of natural causes.
(c) He is murdered.
(d) A tree falls on him.

3. Who drives Tommy Ward to the headquarters of the OSBI the day of his polygraph test?
(a) Jannette Roberts.
(b) Mike Roberts.
(c) Tricia Wolf.
(d) Bud Wolf.

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, who were the first white settlers in Ada?
(a) Duncan.
(b) Carson.
(c) Phillips.
(d) Daggs.

5. What does the narrator state is the purpose of the short bill of aggravated circumstances that is added to the charges put against Ward and Fontenot?
(a) To permit Don Wyatt to release Ward and Fontenot from jail.
(b) To permit the district attorney to seek life in prison.
(c) To permit the district attorney to seek the death penalty.
(d) To permit Ward and Fontenot the right to seek an attorney.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator claim is considered the founder of Ada?

2. What is the setting of The Dreams of Ada in Chapter 1?

3. Where is Marie Titsworth when her daughter's truck is impounded?

4. Who administers Ward's polygraph test?

5. Which key witness in the Ward/Fontenot case provides most of the information for the composite sketches?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

2. Why do many residents in Ada have police scanners in their homes?

3. In Chapter 4, how does Tricia Ward's father react when she tells him her brother Jimmy was smoking marijuana?

4. How is the Haraway case different from both the Rawlings' and the Brown's cases?

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

6. Discuss the major evidence collected in the Rawlings' case as described by the narrator in Chapter 6.

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

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

9. Describe the city of Ada as it is described in Chapter 1.

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

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