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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 does Sughrue prevent Trahearne from changing his life?
(a) Encourages him to get drunk.
(b) Buys him a plane ticket to Mexico.
(c) Punches him cold and takes him to the hospital.
(d) Gets Melinda on the phone.

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

3. What does Trahearne say he learned during the war?
(a) How to drink.
(b) How to run from his problems.
(c) How to treat women.
(d) How to kill and how to live.

4. How faithful is Melinda in her marriage to Trahearne?
(a) She had only one affair.
(b) Consistently unfaithful.
(c) Quite faithful.
(d) She tried to stay committed to him.

5. What does Trahearne need to be able to write?
(a) Peace and quiet.
(b) Catherine.
(c) Sobriety.
(d) A computer.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Selma Hinds, who died in the car accident long ago?

2. At the end of their romantic interlude, what do Catherine and Sughrue confess to each other?

3. After making the agreement between Sughrue and Torres, where do Sughrue and the others take Jackson?

4. What negative behavior does Trahearne begin after he arrives at Sughrue's acreage in Montana?

5. What does Catherine reveal about her first husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would Melinda tell Sughrue he doesn't know her at all?

2. According to Catherine, what is Trahearne and Melinda's marriage like?

3. Has Trahearne been fair to Sughrue, in his use of Sughrue's investigative skills?

4. When Sughrue walks away from Catherine, what does that mean?

5. What is Trahearne's failure to write symbolic of? How?

6. Why would Torres still demand the forty thousand dollars from Melinda?

7. Is Sughrue's reaction to finding Melinda at Selma's home realistic? Why?

8. Why would Betty Sue need convincing to contact Rosie?

9. How would Melinda's past life affected her present day life?

10. Why does Trahearne start drinking again?

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