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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. What has Betty Sue's father revealed to Peggy?
(a) Betty Sue lives in a commune in Oregon.
(b) She is dead.
(c) He doesn't want to see her.
(d) He isn't Betty Sue's real father.

2. What is Professor Richter's academic expertise?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Pornography.
(c) Writing.
(d) Advertising.

3. How does Peggy feel about Betty Sue?
(a) That she wishes to be Betty Sue.
(b) That Betty Sue is disgusting.
(c) That Betty Sue abuses people.
(d) That she fell in love with Betty Sue.

4. Trahearne's ex-wife tells Sughrue to look where for him?
(a) The library, writing and researching.
(b) His regular hangouts, bars.
(c) On the streets.
(d) Church.

5. How does Charles Gleeson know Betty Sue?
(a) He was her drama teacher.
(b) His daughter and she were childhood friends.
(c) He babysat her as a toddler.
(d) They worked together.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sughrue recall about his torture technique and his discharge from Vietnam?

2. Where does Sughrue track Trahearne to before they ever meet?

3. When Betty Sue left Jackson, how did she feel about him?

4. What does Jackson admit to Sughrue after their first meeting concerning Betty Sue?

5. What does Sughrue do with Randall Jackson after their first meeting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jimmy Joe Flowers like?

2. Why is it significant that Albert Griffith searched the morgue for Betty Sue?

3. How has Sughrue's self-described "mean streak" affected his life thus far?

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

5. How do Selma Hinds' actions characterize her?

6. How does Trahearne's interpretation of Catherine align with what the audience knows about her?

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

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

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

10. How does Sughrue treat Charles Gleeson? Why?

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