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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens after Dave has been in jail for three weeks?
(a) He goes to trial.
(b) He is let go as the charges are dropped.
(c) He is moved to the trustee dormitory.
(d) He gets a loan approved and is able to post his bond.

2. Why can the Sheriff do nothing about the letter?
(a) He says Dave has no proof it was addressed to Dave.
(b) He says it could just be a prank.
(c) It is out of his jurisdiction.
(d) There are no fingerprints or other identification.

3. What interferes with Dixie Lee's success?
(a) Drugs and alcohol.
(b) Two more kids coming along.
(c) A vindictive label company.
(d) His vocal chords become harmed.

4. Where does Dave want to leave Alafair?
(a) At a friend's house who lives in Canada.
(b) With the child protective services.
(c) At home with a babysitter.
(d) Where she was staying while he was in jail.

5. How does Dave spend the majority of his time in his cell?
(a) Filling out loan applications and reading old magazines
(b) Talking to his cellmates to gather information.
(c) Singing to himself to annoy the other cellmates.
(d) Sleeping.

6. How old is Dave's daughter, Alafair?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 13.

7. Why were the charges dropped against Dixie Lee?
(a) Because of a high priced lawyer paid for by Sally Dio.
(b) Mapes confesses to planting the drugs.
(c) Vidrine confesses to planting the drugs.
(d) Lack of evidence.

8. What effectively ends Dixie Lee's career?
(a) He is sued by the record label company.
(b) Prison time.
(c) His wife dies and he is too grieved to perform.
(d) His vocal chords never heal right.

9. Why does Purcel go to South America?
(a) He killed a government witness.
(b) He was a missionary to an Amazon tribe.
(c) He falls in love with a woman from Brazil.
(d) He could live more cheaply there after retirement.

10. What surprises Dave?
(a) To see Purcel back in the States.
(b) That the CEO of Star Drilling is an old Army buddy.
(c) That Purcel ignores Dave.
(d) That Dixie Lee actually gets off on the drug charge.

11. What happened to Cletus Purcel's legal problems?
(a) There is a warrent pending for Purcel's arrest.
(b) They have been resolved.
(c) It is making its way through the courts.
(d) He is on probation.

12. What does Dave think Dixie Lee should do?
(a) Hire a lawyer.
(b) Go to the police.
(c) Take out a contract on the two men.
(d) Hire a bodyguard.

13. What does Dave do after Vidrine and Mapes are alone?
(a) Calls Sally Dio.
(b) Question them.
(c) Beats them.
(d) Calls the police.

14. What is the connection between Dio and Dixie Lee?
(a) They both like jazz and blues.
(b) Dio and Dixie Lee went to high school together.
(c) They were in the Army together.
(d) Dio likes Fifties music.

15. Where is Alafair staying while Dave is in jail?
(a) With a cousin.
(b) With her grandmother.
(c) With Dave's deceased wife's best friend.
(d) With Dave's aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dave go as soon as he has Alafair settled?

2. Who is Batist?

3. Why is Dave moved into solitary confinement?

4. Where is Dave on a business trip?

5. Who does Dave call to tell he is in Montana and that he believes Dio has something to do with Mapes, Vidrine, and the murder they supposedly committed?

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