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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Marcus react when Benjamin Roth insulted Nola's memory?
(a) He pulled a knife on him.
(b) He threatened to ruin him.
(c) He yelled at him and stalked off.
(d) He pushed Roth up against a wall and shoved his forearm in his throat.

2. What did Marcus tell Gahalowood about why he was so intent on helping Harry?
(a) He was 28 years old and Harry was his only friend in the world.
(b) He owed Harry money and felt obligated to help because of his debt.
(c) He had passed Harry's writing off as his own and felt guilty.
(d) Harry was really his father.

3. What did Harry tell Marcus after he was released from jail about his and Marcus's relationship?
(a) He said he loved Marcus more than ever.
(b) He said he would only be friends with Marcus if they could write the book together.
(c) He said Marcus and he should live together.
(d) He said they could not be friends any longer.

4. Why did the person writing the threatening letters to Harry stop writing them?
(a) He felt sorry for Harry after seeing his obvious grief over losing Nola.
(b) His daughter asked him to stop.
(c) He was afraid he would get caught.
(d) He knew they were not working so he stopped.

5. What happened to Chief Pratt after he confessed to what he had done with Nola in the summer of 1975?
(a) He was arrested.
(b) He killed himself.
(c) His wife divorced him.
(d) He was run out of town.

6. Who painted the painting of Nola that Elijah Stern kept in his house?
(a) Harry.
(b) Chief Pratt.
(c) Travis.
(d) Luther.

7. How did Harry react when Marcus told him he thought Nola had had a relationship with Elijah Stern during 1975?
(a) Harry hurt himself.
(b) Harry said he knew about it.
(c) Harry got very upset.
(d) Harry punched Marcus in the face.

8. What was Elijah Stern waiting at the house at Goose Cove to tell Harry after he got back from Martha's Vineyard?
(a) That he could stay at the house rent-free for a few more months.
(b) That the rent was going up.
(c) That he needed to leave immediately.
(d) That Elijah wanted to be a writer.

9. What did Gahalowood decide needed to be done in the investigation after interviewing Luther's sister?
(a) He needed to interview Luther's father.
(b) He needed to get a handwriting analysis of Luther's handwriting.
(c) He needed to get a DNA sample from Luther.
(d) He needed to check a voice recording of Luther's.

10. What did David Kellergan do when he discovered Nola was missing the week she spent with Harry at Martha's Vineyard?
(a) He told his best friend.
(b) He told his mother.
(c) He called the police.
(d) He gave himself 7 days to find her before calling the police.

11. What did Elijah Stern ask Luther to help him with when he knocked on Luther's door for the first time?
(a) Chopping down a tree.
(b) Tracking someone down.
(c) Changing a tire.
(d) Writing a book.

12. What did Harry tell Marcus Nola's mother used to do to her?
(a) Tell her she was too fat.
(b) Beat her and hold her head under the water.
(c) Take her for ice cream and to the movies.
(d) Tell her she needed to date younger men.

13. What began to raise Luther's family's suspicions that something bad had happened to him?
(a) He missed his sister's twenty-first birthday party.
(b) He had crashed his car.
(c) They had heard him having a loud fight with someone.
(d) He began wearing terrible clothes.

14. What did Robert Quinn discover about his wife Tamara that shocked him?
(a) He discovered she was having an affair.
(b) He discovered through her journal entries that she really did love him.
(c) He discovered she was stealing from the restaurant.
(d) He discovered she had beaten their daughter.

15. Who wrote the anonymous threatening letters to Harry in the summer of 1975 after Nola's disappearance?
(a) Chief Pratt.
(b) Jenny Quinn.
(c) Robert Quinn.
(d) Tamara Quinn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who regularly brought Harry food during the fall of 1975 after Nola disappeared?

2. What had Deborah Cooper been doing the afternoon Nola disappeared?

3. Who did Marcus eventually suspect leaked the book excerpts?

4. What was Gahalowood's theory right after Chief Pratt's death about who had killed Nola?

5. What terrible news did Roy Barnaski tell Marcus after he had begun writing his book about Harry?

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