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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. How many years did it take Betty Sue to call Jimmy?
(a) Four or five years.
(b) She's never contacted him.
(c) A decade.
(d) A day.

2. How do the police react to the answers from Sughrue and Rosie?
(a) Angry that Sughrue didn't do more to stop the event.
(b) Confused because the story doesn't make sense.
(c) Knowledgeable that Sughrue and Rosie lied.
(d) Grateful for such strong eyewitnesses.

3. What best describes Betty Sue and Albert Griffith's intimacy?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) They only slept together a few times.
(c) Frequent.
(d) They never slept together.

4. What does Rosie think about Betty Sue at the beginning of the novel?
(a) That Betty Sue is alive.
(b) That Betty Sue is happily married somewhere.
(c) That Betty Sue is a prostitute.
(d) That Betty Sue works for the government.

5. What did Betty Sue want from Jimmy when she called him?
(a) Advice.
(b) Money.
(c) A bus ticket.
(d) A date.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Betty Sue been gone?

2. After Saghrue arrives at Trahearne's house and meets Melinda, how does he realize he feels about Betty Sue?

3. What is C.W. Sughrue's occupation?

4. After seeing Melinda's sculptures, what does Sughrue go to bed thinking?

5. What is Abraham Trahearne's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prompts Sughrue to say he will "rise and do what [he] knew he had to do, to what [he] owed the women"?

2. Why would Sughrue just accept the beatings from Jackson's men?

3. How does Sughrue's remark about his job and "the chase being over" indirectly characterize him?

4. What is foreshadowed by Trahearne's eagerness to travel with Sughrue in the search for Betty Sue?

5. What do Sughrue and Trahearne's interactions with the nurse teach the readers about these two men?

6. How does Trahearne react to the porn Professor Richter shows him and Sughrue?

7. Sughrue is uncomfortable about Catherine and Trahearne's mother living together. Why?

8. How do Trahearne's novels parallel his personality and life?

9. Sughrue and the nurse connect quickly. What side of his personality does this event reveal?

10. What does Charles Gleeson's relationship with Betty Sue symbolize?

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