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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 does Dave offend Darlene?
(a) He does not offend her.
(b) By his continued protests.
(c) By his belief that Purcel is involved in murder.
(d) By his badmouthing Purcel.

2. Why do the police think Desmarteau leaves town?
(a) Becuase he ruined his car that was about to be repossessed.
(b) He left to work as a roustabout on a rig.
(c) He joins a travleing fair to work.
(d) He got a local girl pregnant and her father is angry.

3. What is the name American Horse?
(a) Darlene's married name.
(b) Darlene's maiden name.
(c) The name of the tavern where Dixie Lee drinks.
(d) A Navajo name.

4. What does Dave find in Teton county?
(a) Nothing.
(b) An illegal land grant to Dio.
(c) A prior arrest record for Mapes.
(d) The connection between Mapes, Dio, and the Star Drilling Company.

5. Who comes into Dave's yard?
(a) The electrical meter reader.
(b) The water meter reader.
(c) A cableman.
(d) A telephone repairman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dave decide it is time to do?

2. Where does Nygurski take Dave?

3. Who has dessert with Dave and Alafair?

4. What did Darlene have shortly before her death?

5. What does Dave begin to suspect?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Desmarteau receive Dave, and what does he learn?

2. Is Dave's response to Cletus taking Charlie out of the house ethical?

3. Why does Dave go to the courthouse and what is the result?

4. How does Cletus save Dave's wife and do you think he and Dave are more alike than first seemed?

5. What is Dave's response to Dixie Lee's request to help and do you think it is wise?

6. What happens when Darlene comes over to Dave's home and what is the outcome?

7. What does Dave dream and what might the dream foreshadow?

8. How does Cletus now become a sympathetic character?

9. How is it obvious that Dave is starting to feel desperate?

10. What happens that seems to indicate that Dixie Lee may finally be getting his life back on track?

(see the answer keys)

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