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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. Who came chasing after Harry in his car immediately after he returned to Somerset from Martha's Vineyard?
(a) David Kellergan.
(b) Travis Dawn.
(c) Luther Caleb.
(d) Gareth Pratt.

2. What shocking piece of information did Chief Pratt admit when Marcus and Gahalowood questioned him in 2008?
(a) He had killed Nola.
(b) Nola had confessed she loved him in 1975,
(c) He had covered for Nola's murderer.
(d) Nola had performed a sex act on him in his office in 1975.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Stern keep the painting of Nola all those years after she disappeared?

2. How did Marcus react when Benjamin Roth insulted Nola's memory?

3. What is the name of Marcus's agent?

4. What is the name of the actress that Marcus used to date?

5. What did Deborah Cooper do when she saw Nola running through the woods with a man running behind her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Harry tell Marcus about working on an idea for writing in terms of time frames?

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. Why was the handwriting analysis of the writing on The Origin of Evil transcript that was buried with Nola so important and whose handwriting was it?

4. What did Nola tell Harry her mother did to her to punish her?

5. Why did Tamara Quinn tell her therapist that she is so mean to her daughter Jenny?

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

7. What did Sylla tell Marcus and Gahalowood about the effect Luther's beating had on him?

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

9. Why did Marcus tell his publisher he did not want to accept the help of ghostwriters for his book on Harry?

10. Why did Ernie Pinkas, the part-time Somerset librarian, ask Marcus to put his name in the acknowledgement section of his book?

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