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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, The Boy Next Door: Then, Summer 1984 and Now, November 1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Melanie become upset when Michael presents clothes for Emily at the funeral home?
(a) The outfit is ripped.
(b) Melanie wanted to choose the outfit herself.
(c) He chose an outfit that Emily would never have worn.
(d) The outfit is dirty.

2. What does the autopsy report show?
(a) Emily definitely shot herself.
(b) Emily died of natural causes.
(c) Emily was definitely murdered.
(d) Emily may not have shot herself.

3. What is wrong with Chris?
(a) Nervous breakdown.
(b) Head injury.
(c) Gunshot wound.
(d) Broken arm.

4. Who arrives to dinner first at the beginning of the story?
(a) James and Melanie.
(b) Michael and Melanie.
(c) Gus and Michael.
(d) James and Gus.

5. What month and year does the book open up in?
(a) November 1997.
(b) November 1989.
(c) November 1998.
(d) February 1997.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Emily die?

2. What do the couples in the beginning of the book talk about at dinner?

3. What does James do during a dinner party when the dog acts up?

4. How does Melanie go to sleep the night of Emily's death?

5. How does Melanie meet Gus?

(see the answer key)

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