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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack think but does not say in Chapter nine when he tells Fred that he will find both Tyler and perhaps Judy's mind?
(a) That they may be nothing but mush when Fred gets them back.
(b) That they are in the same place.
(c) That neither may be the same when Fred gets them back.
(d) That he is lying.

2. What does Rebecca think that Chipper reminds her of in chapter seven when he is grinning after counting out his money?
(a) A cheap suite.
(b) A buzzard.
(c) Burny.
(d) A dead end to a rough road.

3. What is the dog eating in Chapter two?
(a) Irma's hand.
(b) Irma's head.
(c) Irma's foot.
(d) Irma's ear.

4. What flies toward Jack in his waking dreams as they are described in Chapter four?
(a) Red feathers.
(b) Children's voices.
(c) Bees.
(d) Grey clouds of thick smoke.

5. What does Fred tell the police when he calls in Chapter six?
(a) I need a fire truck.
(b) I need an ambulance.
(c) My wife has gone mad and my son is missing.
(d) Someone has broken into my son's room.

6. Who answers Jack's cell phone in Chapter ten when Dale calls it?
(a) Henry.
(b) Someone named Speedy.
(c) Fred.
(d) Jack speaking in a slurred voice.

7. What message does Jack find on the wall of Ed's in Chapter ten?
(a) Here lies what is left of Irma.
(b) The Fisherman was here.
(c) Hello boys.
(d) Too little too late.

8. What is in the box that is delivered to Jack in Chapter nine?
(a) A nest of smashed robin's eggs.
(b) A picture of a tower.
(c) A shoe with a foot inside.
(d) A cd.

9. What does Wendell want most of all and is willing to bribe to get?
(a) A piece of Irma's clothing.
(b) An interview with Jack.
(c) A picture of Irma's naked dead body.
(d) The crime scene photo's.

10. What surprised Richie Bumstead about the Thunder Five?
(a) There were all independently wealthy.
(b) They were very smart and had gone to college.
(c) They were humanitarians.
(d) They were all very religious.

11. What does Wendell envision his coverage of the Fisherman murders doing?
(a) Winning him the Pulitzer.
(b) Make him rich.
(c) Earn him a spot as a famous reporter.
(d) Get him on Nightline.

12. What does Dale ask Jack when they first arrive at Ed's?
(a) Do you smell it?
(b) Will there be any traps inside?
(c) Where should we look?
(d) How long do you think the body has been there?

13. What does Judy write on the note pad in Chapter two?
(a) There is no death but what we choose.
(b) The Black House is the doorway to the Abbalah.
(c) The Crimson King will rule again.
(d) Follow the raven.

14. What does Henry say when Jack says that he did feel like a cop when he went back to the police station rather than a person playing a cop?
(a) It means that Jack is going to catch the Fisherman.
(b) It means that Jack was running toward the problem and not away from it.
(c) It means Jack is back where he belongs.
(d) It means that Tyler has a chance.

15. What does Jack find in the road when he flips to the other side in Chapter nine?
(a) A letter left for Jack.
(b) A bag of rotten groceries.
(c) Tyler's baseball cap.
(d) One of the children's bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one act a homicide detective must never commit?

2. What does Speedy tell Jack about Tyler in the waking dream that Jack has in Chapter nine?

3. What does Henry say about the song that Burny requested while at the Strawberry Festival, 'I Can't Get Started'?

4. What body part did the Fisherman want from Irma?

5. What does Fred read had been found on John Wesley Irkenham's dismembered body?

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