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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sheriff McNaught tell Maxine Root's brothers to do?
(a) Stay away from Padgitt island
(b) Stay close to their sister
(c) Take off their stupid hats
(d) Keep their guns in their trucks

2. What are Lenny and his parents seemingly worried about?
(a) The Vietnam war
(b) Danny Padgitt's eventual parole
(c) Padgitt family
(d) Lenny's illness

3. What does Bubba say the Padgitts should stick to?
(a) Stealin' cars
(b) Murdering women
(c) Bribbing law officials
(d) Moonshine

4. What does McGrew want Willie to do if they buy the paper?
(a) A chicken dance
(b) Leave town
(c) Keep the sell quiet
(d) Stay on for a year to train the new editor

5. Who does the Sheriff say he is going to have to talk to?
(a) Lucien Wilbanks
(b) County Coroner
(c) Danny Padgitt
(d) Callie Ruffin

6. What does Willie say he is losing interest in?
(a) The newspaper business
(b) Journalism as a vocation
(c) The drama
(d) Being in a small town

7. What is supposedly in the box that came from Maxine Root's sister?
(a) Fruit
(b) Almonds
(c) Firecrackers
(d) Pecans

8. What does Callie Ruffin say she remembered about the person killed?
(a) They had prayed together
(b) He had been polite
(c) He loved his parents
(d) He was in such pain because of his accident

9. Who arrives back in Ford County in Chapter 36?
(a) Ginger
(b) Lydia
(c) Sam Ruffin
(d) Danny Padgitt

10. What has Willie given up the idea of finding in Clayton?
(a) Happiness
(b) Wife
(c) A good hunting dog
(d) Someone who understands him

11. What does Mrs. Callie finally decide to do?
(a) Start exercising
(b) Go on a diet
(c) Go see Sam
(d) Change churches

12. What does Willie say Baggy very well might die of soon?
(a) Liver poisoning
(b) Drunk driving
(c) Heart attack
(d) Cancer

13. Where does Willie go to cry?
(a) His office
(b) Harry Rex's office
(c) The back room at Pepe's
(d) His home

14. What does Mr. Youry's neighbor see running past her back door?
(a) Danny Padgitt
(b) Three armed men
(c) A young woman
(d) Two white teenagers

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ollie call his late night 'varmit' hunting?

2. Who is expecting trouble with Danny Padgitt out of jail?

3. What does Sheriff McNaught say that they got from the woods behind Lenny Fargarson's house?

4. What has Callie's house become?

5. Why did Willie not go to Mo Teale's funeral?

(see the answer keys)

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