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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. How much money is Penn going to bill Althea for investigating Payton's murder?
(a) $10 per day.
(b) $1,000 per day.
(c) $100 per day.
(d) $1 per day.

2. 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?
(a) $35,000.
(b) $50,000.
(c) $20,000.
(d) $15,000.

3. After getting away from their pursuers, where does Stone send Penn to for help?
(a) The sheriff's station.
(b) Biscuits and Blues.
(c) The Silver Bell.
(d) His former partner.

4. What does Caitlin learn from a phone call that she receives at her office?
(a) Annie has been kidnapped.
(b) Their lives are in danger.
(c) Their phones are bugged.
(d) Penn is about to be arrested.

5. What is the amount of the lawsuit that Marston files against Penn and the Examiner?
(a) $1 million.
(b) $10 million.
(c) $5 million.
(d) $2.5 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who taught Penn about explosives and the damage they cause?

2. What is the eyewitness's name that Penn tracks down upon his return to Natchez?

3. According to Althea, who was one of the agents that originally investigated Payton's death?

4. Years earlier, from what had the person trapped inside the house saved Penn?

5. What does Penn want to do in order to force Leo Marston's hand?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Leo Marston arrives at the Marston family home and interrupts Penn and Olivia, what does Leo tell Penn?

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

4. How does the person who interrupts Penn at Biscuit and Blues learn that her birth certificate does not list a father's name?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the real reason that Peter Lutjens is being transferred?

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