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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The setting of Chapter 8 is the home of the family with which last name?
(a) McHugh.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Warfield.
(d) Gaskell.

2. When Emily does not emerge from the advertising agency, what happens next?
(a) Crabtree calls Emily on her cell phone.
(b) Walter goes in to get Emily.
(c) Grady goes in to get Emily.
(d) Grady admits that Emily had left their marriage that morning.

3. What term does Grady use when he refers to the malady that had afflicted Albert Vetch?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Midnight disease.
(c) Insomnia.
(d) Schizophrenia.

4. Grady recalls that he and Crabtree discovered Carl Franklin's Hi-Hat between which two of Grady's marriages?
(a) 2nd and 3rd.
(b) 1st and 2nd.
(c) 4th and 5th.
(d) 3rd and 4th.

5. What position does Walter Gaskell hold at the college where Grady teaches?
(a) Environmental science department head.
(b) Dean.
(c) President.
(d) English department head.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, Grady is driving the car while which character sits in the backseat with Crabtree?

2. What is the name of the publishing house waiting for Grady to finish writing his latest novel?

3. When Grady leaves the lecture hall featured in Chapter 10, he runs into which character?

4. Who owned the McClelland Hotel where Albert Vetch lived?

5. In what type of Hollywood deaths is one particular character interested throughout the narrative?

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