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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. When speaking with Richard Kerner, who does Ms. Lavielle say the two composite sketches of the Haraway suspects look like?
(a) Sparcino and Lurke.
(b) Dexter Davis and Willie Barnett.
(c) Randy Rogers and Sparcino.
(d) Kendall Holland and Willie Barnett.

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

3. When does the preliminary hearing in the case of Ward and Fontenot begin?
(a) January 1.
(b) December 31.
(c) January 7.
(d) February 14.

4. While Tommy Ward is in jail, how many poems does he write which chronicle his lingering feelings for Lisa Lawson?
(a) 5.
(b) 100.
(c) 62.
(d) 25.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who receives a threatening phone call saying "he needs to stop defending Ward-or else!"?

2. All of the following names are reported to the police department as possible identities to the composite sketches, EXCEPT for which name?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 2, what does I.T stand for?

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

5. What does Frank Dicus tell Richard Kerner in regards to the Haraway case?

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. Describe Lenny Timmons' testimony about the night Denice Haraway went missing.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Discuss the spectators who watch the trials going on in the courthouse, as described by the narrator in Chapter 7.

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

10. In Chapter 3, what alibi does Tommy Ward give detectives for the day Denice Haraway? Is this the same story he had given to detectives the first time he was questioned? Explain.

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