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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harry Rex tell Willie to do?
(a) Marry Harry Rex's sister
(b) Keep the paper
(c) Take the money
(d) Get out of Clayton

2. What is the piece of land called where the Padgitt family lives?
(a) Padgitt Commune
(b) Padgitt Mountain
(c) Padgitt Holler
(d) Padgitt Island

3. Why do the rumors in the town say that the district attorney had made his request?
(a) To keep word of the trial from leaking out
(b) To stop gossip
(c) To make it harder to buy a jury
(d) To make it harder for Danny to escape

4. What is Callie Ruffin doing when Willie arrives at her house?
(a) Shelling butter beans
(b) Crying
(c) Canning tomatoes
(d) Frying squash

5. What does Piston discover?
(a) A death threat
(b) A bomb
(c) A bottle of moonshine
(d) A severed finger

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Willie learn that Danny Padgitt has been moved to?

2. What does Willie learn the murder victims had in common?

3. What does Sam contact Willie and ask him to do?

4. What does Willie tell Harry Rex he is thinking about doing?

5. What does the funeral home directer tell Willie when Willie says that his landlord, Mr. Magargel, is dead?

(see the answer key)

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