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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Trahearne want to make his novel different than?
(a) His sentimental poetry and far-fetched fiction.
(b) Researched and stiff books.
(c) Other people's writing.
(d) Pretentious and fake gibberish.

2. What do Sughrue and Stacy find in Hyland's home?
(a) Melinda.
(b) A dog fighting ring.
(c) Illegal drugs.
(d) Rosie.

3. What are the terms of Sughrue and Torres's arrangement?
(a) The police will only know what happened to Hyland.
(b) Sughrue gets Melinda's money and Torres goes free.
(c) Stacy will take the blame for Melinda.
(d) Sughrue is not pursued and Melinda goes free.

4. What does Trahearne say his feelings are concerning Melinda, after he decides to help her get the money?
(a) Trahearne cannot live without her.
(b) Trahearne has grown to hate her.
(c) Trahearne needs to settle down in life.
(d) Trahearne loves her more than anything.

5. What will Trahearne pay Sughrue to do?
(a) Find Torres.
(b) Investigate his mother.
(c) Follow Melinda.
(d) Keep Trahearne sober.

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

7. What work did Trahearne want Sughrue to do for him?
(a) Seeking Selma Hinds and discovering her daughter.
(b) Finding out who Melinda was.
(c) Investigating Jimmy Joe.
(d) Find Melinda's car.

8. Why does Sughrue not accept Melinda's offer of herself?
(a) Sughrue knows Melinda and Trahearne love each other.
(b) Sughrue does not want to anger Trahearne.
(c) Sughrue thinks Melinda is dangerous.
(d) Sughrue is developing feelings for Stacy.

9. What help does Stacy want from Sughrue after she wakes in the middle of the night?
(a) To get her food.
(b) To take her to the hospital.
(c) To go away.
(d) To make love to her.

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

11. Who sent Betty Sue's father the postcard?
(a) Trahearne.
(b) Sughrue.
(c) Catherine.
(d) Melinda.

12. At the end of their romantic interlude, what do Catherine and Sughrue confess to each other?
(a) They have feelings for each other.
(b) They want to break up Melinda and Trahearne's marriage.
(c) They dislike each other.
(d) They used each other.

13. Why does Selma go to pieces crying when Sughrue confronts her about Betty Sue?
(a) Selma hates confrontation.
(b) Selma says Betty Sue/Melinda is her daughter.
(c) Selma says Betty Sue/Melinda is her sister.
(d) Sughrue insults Selma.

14. What does Trahearne do to interrupt the scenario Sughrue is arranging inside Hyland's home?
(a) Rushes in with his shotgun.
(b) Calls in the police.
(c) Brought more people over.
(d) Recited poetry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Sughrue finds Betty Sue, who does he convince her to call?

2. What do Sughrue and Stacy plan concerning Hyland's home?

3. How does Sughrue try to end his relationship with Catherine?

4. What does Selma have when Sughrue and Trahearne arrive at her home together?

5. Where does Sughrue take Stacy after the ordeal at Hyland's home?

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