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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. After Penn confronts Livy and the two are interrupted by Leo, what does Penn suddenly realize?
(a) He needs to go to Florida.
(b) He needs to go to California.
(c) He needs to go to Washington.
(d) He needs to go to Colorado.

2. According to Marston's phone records, to whom has Marston talked several times since Caitlin's first article about Payton was published?
(a) Ray Presley.
(b) Austin Mackey.
(c) Ike Ransom.
(d) John Portman.

3. Where do Penn and Tom dispose of the gun?
(a) In the river.
(b) In the cemetery.
(c) In the backyard.
(d) In the swamp.

4. As Penn ponders what he has learned to this point, what does Penn begin to believe the murder was about?
(a) Class.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Power.
(d) Race.

5. What does Penn want to do in order to force Leo Marston's hand?
(a) Accuse Marston of Payton's murder.
(b) Provoke Marston in a fight.
(c) Sue Marston for slander.
(d) Stake-out Marston's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Hanratty brother try to kill Penn?

2. Whom do Penn and his bodyguard go to meet at the warehouse?

3. While having drinks at Biscuits and Blues, who interrupts Penn and his companion?

4. As Stone and Penn rush from the house, Stone is shot. Where is Stone hit?

5. What does the judge threaten Marston with if Marston refuses Penn access to the files?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Johnson speaks at Ruby's funeral, Althea gets up to speak. What does Althea say?

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

3. Describe one retaliatory event that occurs after Penn's accusations are published in the paper.

4. When Penn receives a phone call from Althea after the Hanratty execution, what does Althea tell Penn?

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

6. How does Penn respond when he hears the announcement from the person Penn sees getting off an airplane in Baton Rouge?

7. Where does the judge who orders the boxes removed from the Marston family home for safekeeping have the boxes taken to?

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

9. Why did Caitlin originally not want to publish Penn's accusations about Marston in her paper?

10. As Penn peeks in the window of the Marston family home, what does Penn see Leo preparing to do?

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