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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the orchard keeper do as he drifts into thought?
(a) Cooks breakfast.
(b) Flips through a magazine.
(c) Shines his boots.
(d) Cleans his gun.

2. Whose hideout is in a cave?
(a) Warn's.
(b) The orchard keeper.
(c) John Wesley's.
(d) Sylder's.

3. What kind of animal do the boys hope to trap for its value?
(a) Deer.
(b) Wolf.
(c) Mink.
(d) Fox.

4. Uncle Ather tells the boys about a time when he caught a _______________.
(a) shark.
(b) panther kitten.
(c) bear.
(d) fox.

5. Where does the orchard keeper drag some trees?
(a) To the peach pit where Rattner's body was dumped.
(b) To the lumberyard.
(c) To his moonshine still.
(d) To the back of his house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John Wesley tell Sylder about his traps?

2. What is Uncle Ather's real name?

3. How often does Gifford return to the store to question Huffaker about Ownby?

4. What does the orchard keeper notice about the peach pit when he visits it?

5. What does John Wesley bring to Ownby in the mental asylum?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Sylder's booking in the police department.

2. Describe Ownby's arrest by Officer Gifford.

3. How is the dead cat symbolic of Kenneth Rattner?

4. Why does McCarthy wait until this point in the story to reveal the orchard keeper's name?

5. What information does John Wesley give to Gifford and what does Sylder say about it?

6. Who is Arthur Ownby and what is he doing as this chapter begins?

7. What does the orchard keeper do on a snowy morning involving the peach pit?

8. Who are the boys that John Wesley meets and what do they do?

9. What sense of foreboding does Sylder have as he tries to fall asleep?

10. How does John Wesley manage to get into the mental asylum to visit Ownby?

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