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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 - 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong with Virgil's body?
(a) He is in a wheelchair.
(b) He is missing a leg.
(c) He is missing an arm.
(d) He is blind.

2. Why does Joe have to see his mother up at the Mower County Courthouse?
(a) She works there and needs a ride home.
(b) She has a bail hearing.
(c) She is helping him get Carl's trial records.
(d) She is a lawyer.

3. Where does Joe assume Virgil and Carl met?
(a) In prison.
(b) In chemotherapy.
(c) At the nursing home.
(d) As children.

4. How does Lila treat Joe in the beginning of the story?
(a) With contempt.
(b) She ignores him and they never speak.
(c) With love.
(d) She thinks he is brilliant because he is in college.

5. Carl Iverson is dying of which illness?
(a) Alzheimer's disease.
(b) Pancreatic cancer.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Colon cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carl say to Joe when he is finished telling the story of his grandfather's death?

2. Why is Virgil so convinced that Carl did not kill Crystal?

3. What item does Joe give to Jeremy before he leaves to go to work?

4. Who is with Joe's mother when she finally arrives back home after the smoke alarm was set off?

5. What was on the floor of the boat that caused Grandpa Bill to fall into the water?

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