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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe tell Mr. Rupert his goal is?
(a) To bring DJ to justice for his crimes.
(b) To find Carl's accomplice.
(c) To clear Carl's name before he dies.
(d) To prove that Crystal Hagen committed suicide.

2. What does Joe expect to find when he emerges from the shack in the woods?
(a) His mother.
(b) Lila.
(c) Doug.
(d) The police.

3. What is the last thing Joe thinks before he passes out at Doug's place?
(a) That he let an old man beat him.
(b) That he is going to die.
(c) That he made a mistake about Doug.
(d) That he deserves to be killed.

4. Who is at Joe's door when he and Lila are making breakfast together?
(a) Carl.
(b) Jeremy.
(c) Larry.
(d) Doug.

5. What is needed in order to exonerate Carl?
(a) Another fingernail.
(b) A hair sample from the killer.
(c) Doug's DNA.
(d) Crystal's DNA.

6. Why is Lila only a sophomore at 21 years old?
(a) She was older than other kids when she started elementary school.
(b) She took two years to complete her freshman credits.
(c) She flunked a year and had to re-take classes.
(d) She took a year off before going to college.

7. What does Doug Lockwood quote when he speaks?
(a) Crystal's diary.
(b) The Bible.
(c) His wife.
(d) He talks about the past.

8. What does Jeremy remind Lila about that helps her to break the code in Crystal's diary?
(a) A mnemonic device used to memorize the colors of the rainbow.
(b) An activity she has to do for one of her classes.
(c) A sentence used in keyboarding class.
(d) A nursury rhyme she loved as a child.

9. Where did Joe spend the night after watching "The Glass Menagerie"?
(a) At Lila's apartment.
(b) At the bar where he had the fight.
(c) At his apartment.
(d) At his mother's house.

10. What does Carl see in the elephant grass that causes him to defy Gibbs' order to shoot?
(a) A boy.
(b) A girl.
(c) An old woman.
(d) An old man.

11. Why is Professor Sanden concerned there may not be DNA evidence from the crime?
(a) The police department did not save evidence longer than 10 years.
(b) There was no DNA at the scene of Crystal's murder.
(c) DNA only lasts for a few weeks.
(d) They did not have DNA evidence at the time of Crystal's death.

12. Where does Professor Sanden teach law?
(a) Hamline University.
(b) University of Minnesota.
(c) At the Innocence Project.
(d) He is retired.

13. What news does Joe give to Carl during his visit when Carl is not in his wheelchair?
(a) Joe tells Carl that Crystal killed herself.
(b) Joe tells Carl that Crystal isn't dead.
(c) Joe tells Carl that Danny Lockwood killed Crystal.
(d) Joe tells Carl that Doug Lockwood killed Crystal.

14. Why was Carl not in his wheelchair by the window when Joe came to see him toward the end of the novel?
(a) He was too sick to get out of bed.
(b) He had passed away the night before.
(c) He had been released back to jail.
(d) He escaped and went home.

15. How does Joe convince the sheriff to let him go, after he is picked up from the woods?
(a) He tells the sheriff to call Max Rupert.
(b) He tells the sheriff to look at his driver's license.
(c) He convinces the sheriff to look for Doug Lockwood.
(d) He tells the sheriff that is brother is home alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Doug do when he realizes Joe has escaped?

2. What does the girl in Vietnam have in common with Crystal?

3. What do the scars on Lila's shoulder reveal about her past?

4. Where does Doug Lockwood live?

5. What religion did Carl belong to when he was in Vietnam?

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