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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 is the name of the woman who was in the car the night of the Payton murder?
(a) Betty Lou Masters.
(b) Betty Lou Beckman.
(c) Betty Lou Marston.
(d) Betty Lou Bannister.

2. As Tom and Penn discuss the Payton murder, what do the two men agree is most important as the investigation progresses?
(a) Clearing Tom's good name.
(b) Finding the truth.
(c) Bringing those responsible to justice.
(d) Keeping the family safe.

3. When Penn arrives back in Natchez after the trip to Colorado, a fax is waiting for him. This fax tells him about ____________.
(a) Stolen dynamite.
(b) Stolen plastic explosives.
(c) Stolen fire bombs.
(d) Stolen weapons.

4. What is the current position held by the person Penn is stunned to see in Huntsville?
(a) Director of the FBI.
(b) Director of the CIA.
(c) District Attorney.
(d) President-elect.

5. What does the judge threaten Marston with if Marston refuses Penn access to the files?
(a) Obstruction.
(b) Fraud.
(c) Murder.
(d) Tax evasion.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Penn and his bodyguard are at the warehouse, shots are fired. Who is one of the men killed?

2. According to Marston's phone records, to whom has Marston talked several times since Caitlin's first article about Payton was published?

3. As Penn drives alone after Ruby's funeral, how is Penn feeling?

4. According to the records stolen by the person who interrupts Penn and his companion at Biscuits and Blues, what was the fee for her private adoption?

5. When Livy shows up at Penn's house, the two take a drive. Where do they go?

Short Essay Questions

1. What discrepancy catches Penn's eye about the Fairlane that is sitting in Althea's garden?

2. According to Penn, why had Portman wanted Hanratty extradited to Los Angeles?

3. According to Caitlin, what is the reason why Agent Stone is reluctant to speak to Penn about the Payton case?

4. What announcement does the person Penn sees getting off an airplane in Baton Rouge make that shocks Penn?

5. What happened to the woman in the car when she revealed what she had seen the night of the Payton murder?

6. When Penn arrives at his interview in Colorado, the interviewee does not want to talk. What changes the interviewee's mind?

7. What advice does Penn's Colorado interviewee give to Penn regarding the Payton case?

8. What does Penn learn from the eyewitness that Penn tracks down upon his return to Natchez?

9. Why does Tom Cage at first not believe that Leo Marston would have been involved in Payton's murder?

10. Why does Caitlin change her mind about publishing Penn's accusations in her paper?

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