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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17, 18 and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is on the newspaper clipping Trahearne finds in Melinda's things?
(a) A horoscope.
(b) A clipping from Melinda's theater days.
(c) Selma's daughter's obituary.
(d) An advertisement.

2. Where does Saghure track Peggy Bain to?
(a) A dollar store.
(b) A drug party.
(c) A bar.
(d) A zoo.

3. Who does Sughrue find when he is awoken at night by gunfire and a woman screaming?
(a) Betty Sue threatening Trahearne.
(b) Trahearne attacking Betty Sue.
(c) Trahearne and Betty Sue struggling over Trahearne's gun.
(d) Catherine standing over Trahearne and Betty Sue.

4. What does Catherine do to help Trahearne with his writing?
(a) Types his longhand.
(b) Gives him ideas.
(c) Reads it back to him.
(d) Takes notes for him.

5. What negative behavior does Trahearne begin after he arrives at Sughrue's acreage in Montana?
(a) Self mutilating.
(b) Binge drinking.
(c) Not eating.
(d) Hair pulling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Betty Sue when she called Jimmy?

2. When Sughrue arrives home after leaving Stacy, what does he find?

3. What does Rosie think about Betty Sue at the beginning of the novel?

4. Who sent Betty Sue's father the postcard?

5. What does Sughrue do in response to his findings in the hotel's pool?

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