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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29-37 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sarah tell her mother Miles agreed to work Thanksgiving Day?
(a) He can enjoy the peace and quiet of the empty station.
(b) They need extra help at the drunk driving checkpoints.
(c) He can escape the neverending football games.
(d) He can have Christmas off.

2. In Chapter 5, what does Miles think is the difference between his attraction to Missy and his attraction to Sarah?
(a) With Sarah, it is new and unfamiliar.
(b) With Missy, it was more intense.
(c) With Sarah, it is less immediate.
(d) With Missy, it was always changing, always new.

3. What does the narrator say he was waiting for in the weeks after Missy's death?
(a) To be attacked by Miles.
(b) To be arrested.
(c) To die a horrible death.
(d) To feel some kind of remorse.

4. In Chapter 3, what assumptions did Sarah make about Miles that she found to be incorrect at their first meeting?
(a) That he would be more of a redneck.
(b) That he would be older and overweight.
(c) That he would be weepy and still grieving his wife.
(d) That he would be rude and unconcerned about Jonah's schoolwork.

5. From where does Miles hear gunfire?
(a) From his boss's office.
(b) Inside an abandoned house.
(c) In an abandoned corn field.
(d) Inside the local courthouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 33, what part of Brian's story does Miles focus on the most?

2. What is causing the unnamed narrator to have trouble sleeping in the prologue?

3. Who is Harvey Tillman?

4. In Chapter 32, Sarah meets Brian on Monday morning at the __________.

5. In Chapter 1, what is Miles doing as he sits on his back porch?

(see the answer key)

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