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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 many children did Gahalowood have?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

2. What was Gahalowood's theory right after Chief Pratt's death about who had killed Nola?
(a) He thought Harry had killed her.
(b) He thought Luther Caleb had killed her.
(c) He thought Chief Pratt had killed her.
(d) He thought Elijah Stern had killed her.

3. When Marcus and Gahalowood went to Chief Pratt's Montburry hotel to question him further in 2008, what did they find?
(a) He had killed himself.
(b) He had fled.
(c) He had been murdered.
(d) He was drunk.

4. Why did Elijah Stern tell Gahalowood it was absurd to imply that he had had a sexual relationship with Nola?
(a) Stern was Gay.
(b) Stern had been in a committed relationship for two decades.
(c) Stern was already married.
(d) Stern only liked older women.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Elijah Stern ask Luther to help him with when he knocked on Luther's door for the first time?

2. Who did Jenny Quinn eventually marry?

3. Who wrote the anonymous threatening letters to Harry in the summer of 1975 after Nola's disappearance?

4. What did someone write on the hood of Marcus's car?

5. What was Elijah Stern waiting at the house at Goose Cove to tell Harry after he got back from Martha's Vineyard?

Short Essay Questions

1. When David Kellergan discovered Nola was missing, how did he handle her disappearance?

2. What prevented Gahalowood and Marcus from asking former Police Chief Pratt why he did not include the information about Luther Caleb's death in his report on Nola's murder?

3. What did Harry tell Marcus about the importance of failure?

4. Where was Luther Caleb's body found and what did Gahalowood and Marcus think was strange about it?

5. Why does Tamara Quinn abruptly tell Harry he has to pay his tab at Clark's in mid-summer 1975?

6. Why did Gahalowood invite Marcus to dinner at his house?

7. What did Sylla Caleb, Luther's sister, tell Marcus and Gahalowood about when her family started to worry about Luther?

8. Why did Luther Caleb's father get so upset when he learned that the name of the girl who had disappeared was Nola Kellergan?

9. Why does Luther Caleb chase Harry in his car immediately after Harry returns to Somerset from Martha's Vineyard?

10. How did Harry react when Marcus told him about finding the painting of Nola in Elijah Stern's house?

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