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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. Instead of sleeping with Cathering after their fight, what does Sughrue do?
(a) He teases her about Trahearne.
(b) He makes a superficial joke about her age.
(c) He asks for money.
(d) He tries to start a serious relationship with her.

2. After Sughrue kidnaps Jackson, what does Jackson tell him about Melinda?
(a) Melinda belongs to the mob.
(b) Melinda is an undercover cop.
(c) Melinda's been kidnapped by Hyland.
(d) Melinda is not really married to Trahearne.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How faithful was Trahearne during his and Catherine's marriage?

2. What does Sughrue do for Stacy after she wakes during the night after the events at Hyland's home?

3. What specifically is Trahearne going to write about?

4. Jimmy Joe alleges to Rosie that Betty Sue sent him what?

5. What happened to Betty Sue in the hippie community of San Francisco?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Sughrue and Traherne get along in Montana?

2. How is Catherine's sexual relationship with Sughrue manipulative?

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

4. Why would Sughrue make a superficial joke about Catherine''s age?

5. What is a possibility behind Rosie's reaction to the news about Betty Sue?

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

7. Why would Sughrue immediately head out to California after the phone call from Jimmy Joe?

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

9. Is it possible for Sughrue to help Trahearne write? Why?

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

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