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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Chief Pratt force Nola to do when he picked her up in his car in the summer of 1975?
(a) He forced her to tell him who she was having an affair with.
(b) He forced her to perform the same sex act that she had done in his office weeks earlier.
(c) He forced her to sing for him.
(d) He forced her to hit him.

2. What had Deborah Cooper been doing the afternoon Nola disappeared?
(a) Reading a book.
(b) Making an apple pie.
(c) Knitting.
(d) Working in her garden.

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

4. How was Deborah Cooper killed?
(a) She was stabbed.
(b) She was shot.
(c) She was poisoned.
(d) She was strangled.

5. What was Tamara Quinn's greatest secret that she kept from her family?
(a) She had a love affair.
(b) She went to a therapist.
(c) She was not really Jenny's mother.
(d) She did not really own the restaurant.

6. 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 needed to leave immediately.
(b) That the rent was going up.
(c) That he could stay at the house rent-free for a few more months.
(d) That Elijah wanted to be a writer.

7. What did the message written in lipstick on the mirror in the bathroom at the gala in 1975 say that shocked Harry?
(a) Go home Harry.
(b) We hate you.
(c) Get out.
(d) Pedophile scum.

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

9. Who did Marcus eventually suspect leaked the book excerpts?
(a) Harry Quebert.
(b) Travis Dawn.
(c) Benjamin Roth.
(d) Roy Barnaski.

10. What did Travis Dawn do to Luther when he found him driving around Somerset in 1975?
(a) He made Luther kill somebody else.
(b) He beat Luther savagely.
(c) He arrested Luther.
(d) He cut off Luther's ear.

11. 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 called the police.
(c) He gave himself 7 days to find her before calling the police.
(d) He told his mother.

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

13. What had happened to Luther that caused his disfigurement?
(a) He had been in a terrible car accident.
(b) He had been randomly attacked by a group of young men.
(c) He had had the condition since birth.
(d) He was in the war and they were war wounds.

14. What terrible news did Roy Barnaski tell Marcus after he had begun writing his book about Harry?
(a) Barnaski told Marcus lawyers would sue him for defamation.
(b) Barnaski told Marcus readers would never buy the book because it was too boring.
(c) Barnaski told Marcus excerpts from the book had been stolen and would appear in the papers.
(d) Barnaski told Marcus he could not publish the book any more.

15. What did Ernie Pinkas ask Marcus to do for him in relation to Marcus's book?
(a) He asked to work on the book as a ghost writer.
(b) He asked Marcus to send him a copy of the book.
(c) He asked Marcus to list him as a co-author.
(d) He asked Marcus to put his name in the acknowledgements.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Harry react when Marcus told him he thought Nola had had a relationship with Elijah Stern during 1975?

2. Why did Travis Dawn get so upset with Luther Caleb in the summer of 1975?

3. What real-life historical event was the release of Marcus's book competing with?

4. What began to raise Luther's family's suspicions that something bad had happened to him?

5. Who came chasing after Harry in his car immediately after he returned to Somerset from Martha's Vineyard?

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