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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 he needed to leave immediately.
(c) That Elijah wanted to be a writer.
(d) That the rent was going up.

2. Who burned the love note Harry wrote to Nola that Tamara Quinn had stolen and put in her safe?
(a) Travis Dawn.
(b) Robert Quinn.
(c) Gareth Pratt.
(d) Luther Caleb.

3. Why was Harry afraid to leave his house at Goose Cove in the autumn of 1975?
(a) He was afraid someone would beat him up.
(b) He was afraid to be happy again after losing Nola.
(c) He was afraid he would not be able to find his way back.
(d) He was afraid he would find another threatening note when he returned.

4. What evidence mostly exonerated Harry from the murder charges?
(a) The handwriting analysis of the writing on the manuscript buried with Nola reveals it was not Harry's writing.
(b) Someone else confessed to the murder.
(c) There was new DNA evidence that does not match Harry's DNA.
(d) The police found new bone fragments that mean Harry can not be the killer.

5. 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 hit him.
(b) He forced her to tell him who she was having an affair with.
(c) He forced her to perform the same sex act that she had done in his office weeks earlier.
(d) He forced her to sing for him.

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

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

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

9. What happened to Nola and Harry in Writer's Heaven?
(a) They run away together and Nola lived.
(b) The break up.
(c) Harry never learns what happened to Nola.
(d) Nola and Harry get married.

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

11. Why did Stern keep the painting of Nola all those years after she disappeared?
(a) He had loved Nola.
(b) He never knew who to give the painting to.
(c) He felt guilty and wanted to remind himself of his possible part in her disappearance.
(d) He loved the painting.

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

13. Who regularly brought Harry food during the fall of 1975 after Nola disappeared?
(a) Nancy Hattaway.
(b) Jenny Quinn.
(c) Chief Pratt.
(d) Tamara Quinn.

14. Who wrote the words that were on the manuscript buried with Nola?
(a) Robert Quinn.
(b) Chief Pratt.
(c) Harry.
(d) Luther Caleb.

15. What color was the dress Nola was wearing when she was killed?
(a) Green.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

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. Where was Luther's body found?

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

4. Who did Harry sit next to at the Somerset gala in 1975?

5. Who did Marcus discover had written the message in lipstick on the mirror in the bathroom at the gala to startle Harry?

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