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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often does Gifford return to the store to question Huffaker about Ownby?
(a) Once a week.
(b) Every couple of hours.
(c) Every day.
(d) Once a month.

2. What does Sylder secretly think after John Wesley leaves?
(a) He hopes Gifford gets what he deserves.
(b) He wonders if his wife will bring lunch.
(c) He wants to repent.
(d) He is anxious to get back to his whiskey runs.

3. The orchard keeper feels a combination of anguish and ___________ about the dead man.
(a) relief.
(b) joy.
(c) grief.
(d) sorrow.

4. Which of the following boys does John Wesley encounter?
(a) Warn Pulliam.
(b) All of these.
(c) Johnny Romines.
(d) Boog.

5. Who picks up Ownby when he is spotted walking with his dog?
(a) Sylder.
(b) Mildred Rattner.
(c) The police.
(d) Two men in a car.

6. How could the charges against John Wesley be dropped?
(a) They can't be dropped.
(b) If he would give information about Sylder.
(c) If he paid off the cops.
(d) If he got a good attorney.

7. Why is Ownby going to be arrested?
(a) For gun smuggling.
(b) For defacing the government tank.
(c) For murder.
(d) For bootlegging.

8. What extreme weather is Ownby navigating at the beginning of this section?
(a) Torrential rain.
(b) Blizzard.
(c) Tornado.
(d) Hurricane.

9. Why does Officer Legwater sift through the ashes in the peach pit?
(a) To find bullet casings.
(b) To find Ownby's still parts.
(c) To find Rattner's platinum plate.
(d) To find Ownby's knife.

10. Ownby states that the older he gets, _____________________.
(a) the fewer things there are that he wants to do.
(b) the worse his hearing gets.
(c) the more memory he loses.
(d) the worse his eyesight gets.

11. How much money does John Wesley give to Sylder?
(a) Two dollars.
(b) Fifty cents.
(c) Ten dollars.
(d) Twenty dollars.

12. What does the orchard keeper see in the snowy landscape?
(a) A fox.
(b) An eagle.
(c) A pair of hunters.
(d) A cardinal.

13. What does the orchard keeper notice about the peach pit when he visits it?
(a) It is vacant.
(b) It is smoldering.
(c) It is covered over with dirt.
(d) It is paved over.

14. What do the boys do in the cave?
(a) Play cards.
(b) Look at pictures of nude women.
(c) Clean their guns.
(d) Smoke cigarettes.

15. What do the police choose not to reveal to Mildred Rattner about her husband?
(a) That he committed suicide.
(b) That he was wanted in three states.
(c) That he was having an affair.
(d) That he had another family in another state.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the two men do with Ownby after they pick him up?

2. Why does Sylder feel a strong sense of doom as he tries to fall asleep?

3. Who hears the wildcat's final death scream?

4. What is the widow Rattner's first name?

5. Where is Ownby heading when he leaves his house from the back door?

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