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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willie say makes it impossible for him to leave town?
(a) Until Callie was better
(b) The killings
(c) Until the paper was fully taken over
(d) Until the elections were over

2. What does Willie know has happened to Mr. Trooper Durant?
(a) Divorced twice
(b) Had a stroke
(c) Went out of business
(d) Passed away

3. What does Callie get out of her closet?
(a) A paperback book
(b) A scrap of paper
(c) Spiral notebook
(d) A leather bound journal

4. What does Ollie use while hunting?
(a) Grenades
(b) Bow and arrow
(c) Full camo
(d) Night-vision goggles

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

6. What is the name of the big store coming to Clayton?
(a) Bargain City
(b) Wal-Mart
(c) Stuff Mart
(d) More for Less

7. What does Willie admit that he started some of his arguments because of?
(a) A need to be heard
(b) To have something to write about
(c) Boredom
(d) Fun

8. What happens to Callie in Chapter 44?
(a) Another heart attack
(b) Another stroke
(c) Cancer is found
(d) A lung collapses

9. What legitimate business do the Padgitts begin buying their way into?
(a) Clothing
(b) Medicine
(c) Highway construction
(d) Food transportation

10. What does Lucien Willbanks specifically say about Willie in regards to the meeting?
(a) Willie is not invited
(b) Willie is not to print any information
(c) Willie is not to know about it
(d) Willie is to bring cookies

11. What does Callie Ruffin decide to do though Esau and Sam advise against it?
(a) Attend the funeral
(b) Put out an add for a body guard
(c) Go to the new shopping store
(d) Move

12. What does Sheriff McNaught say that they got from the woods behind Lenny Fargarson's house?
(a) Foot prints
(b) A chewed up cigar
(c) The gun used
(d) Nothing

13. What does Willie give Mrs. Callie when they have lunch?
(a) A birthday card
(b) A copy of Danny's parole hearing
(c) Letters from Sam
(d) A copy of the paper

14. How much is Willie told his newspaper business is worth?
(a) 10 million
(b) A hundred thousand
(c) 1.2 million
(d) Can't really say

15. What is Willie called for his views on the new big business coming to Clayton?
(a) Liberal
(b) Prude
(c) Tree Hugger
(d) Anti-American

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sheriff McNaught ask Willie for?

2. What is Willie told he cannot do after he leaves the parole hearing?

3. What does Willie say Baggy very well might die of soon?

4. Who does Willie lock eyes with when he enters the room for the parole hearing?

5. Where does Willie go to cry?

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