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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Sughrue and Stacy plan concerning Hyland's home?
(a) An armed, violent assault.
(b) A robbery and assault.
(c) An escape from the police.
(d) A hiding place.

2. According to Selma Hinds, who died in the car accident long ago?
(a) A pet dog.
(b) Selma's mother.
(c) Selma's daughter.
(d) Betty Sue's husband.

3. What specifically is Trahearne going to write about?
(a) Youth and stupidity.
(b) Flowers and nature.
(c) Romance and heartbreak.
(d) Love and forgiveness.

4. What makes Catherine confront both Trahearne and Sughrue?
(a) The men are helping Melinda.
(b) The men are physically fighting.
(c) The men are drinking too much.
(d) The men are arguing over her.

5. What does Selma have when Sughrue and Trahearne arrive at her home together?
(a) Family heirlooms.
(b) A shotgun.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) Paperwork to sign.

6. What happens to Stacy during the night after the events at Hyland's home?
(a) She throws up.
(b) She passes out.
(c) She has a shocked reaction.
(d) She sleepwalks.

7. What does Catherine want to know when she arrives at Sughrue's job?
(a) Who will he track down now?
(b) Why does he want to escape Melinda?
(c) What Sughrue and Trahearne did while Trahearne was gone?
(d) How did he get this current job?

8. What happened to Betty Sue in the hippie community of San Francisco?
(a) She went to college.
(b) She fell in love.
(c) She got in trouble with Jackson.
(d) She opened a tattoo parlor.

9. What final term does Torres insist upon with Sughrue, concerning Melinda?
(a) Melinda must star in one more porn.
(b) Melinda must divorce Trahearne.
(c) Melinda must return the forty thousand dollars she stole.
(d) Melinda must speak to the police.

10. When did Catherine fall in love with Trahearne?
(a) During one of his hospital stays.
(b) While he was engaged to Melinda.
(c) When she graduated college.
(d) Shortly after the death of her first husband.

11. Why does Melinda go to California after Sughrue takes Trahearne back to the ranch?
(a) To find Torres.
(b) To visit Selma and Stacy.
(c) To sell some some of her sculptures.
(d) To get her college transcripts.

12. After Sughrue finds Betty Sue, who does he convince her to call?
(a) Rosie.
(b) Edna.
(c) Melinda.
(d) Catherine.

13. What war story does Sughrue reveal to Trahearne?
(a) Sughrue left a wife in Vietnam.
(b) Sughrue had nightmares from the events.
(c) Sughrue actually was never in war.
(d) Sughrue accidentally killed a family of civilians in Vietnam.

14. What does Catherine confess her feelings toward Sughrue have been since meeting him?
(a) She wants to hurt him.
(b) She feels no physical attraction to him.
(c) She cares for him.
(d) She wants to sleep with him.

15. What is Sughrue doing when Trahearne asks him to visit because Melinda is on one of her trips?
(a) Small jobs.
(b) Donating blood.
(c) Volunteering.
(d) Moving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Trahearne want to make his novel different than?

2. How faithful was Trahearne during his and Catherine's marriage?

3. What does Trahearne need to be able to write?

4. What does Sughrue do at his acreage in Montana?

5. What does Trahearne do to interrupt the scenario Sughrue is arranging inside Hyland's home?

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