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

2. After Saghrue arrives at Trahearne's house and meets Melinda, how does he realize he feels about Betty Sue?
(a) He dislikes her mysteriousness.
(b) He wants to forget her.
(c) He's upset.
(d) He's fallen under her spell.

3. Who was with Betty Sue the night she disappeared?
(a) Rosie.
(b) Albert Griffith.
(c) Charles Gleeson.
(d) Trahearne.

4. Who quits running on Sughrue's first morning in Montana?
(a) Edna.
(b) Trahearne.
(c) Catherine.
(d) Sughrue.

5. What body part of Trahearne's end up shot in the bar fight?
(a) Foot.
(b) Chest.
(c) Arm.
(d) Butt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who runs with Sughrue on his first morning in Montana?

2. What is Melinda's life story, as Melinda tells Sughrue?

3. Trahearne's ex-wife tells Sughrue to look where for him?

4. Who does Sughrue encounter during a walk through the woods?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sughrue treat Charles Gleeson? Why?

2. What does Sughrue's interactions with Jackson show about his investigative skills?

3. What tone is set when Sughrue says people in his business need "a moral certitude that I no longer even claimed to possess"?

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

5. What is Jimmy Joe Flowers like?

6. Are Sughrue's descriptions of Albert Griffith accurate? Why or why not?

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

8. Sughrue and Rosie concoct a story for the police. How does this story indirectly characterize them?

9. How do Selma Hinds' actions characterize her?

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

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