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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is featured in the shocking photograph that Silas finds during his search of Larry's house?
(a) Infant Silas on French's lap.
(b) Infant Larry on Silas's mother's lap.
(c) Infant Cindy on Cecil's lap.
(d) Infant Silas on Larry's mother's lap.

2. In what city had Silas spent his early childhood before moving south with his mother?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Denver.
(d) Indianapolis.

3. How old is Larry in the present day?
(a) 31.
(b) 26.
(c) 41.
(d) 50.

4. What object does Larry come home to find "waiting" in his house in the first sentence of the novel?
(a) A beast.
(b) A mirage.
(c) A ghost.
(d) A monster.

5. What is peculiar about the phone bill Silas finds in Larry's house?
(a) Every call is made from the same number to Larry's number.
(b) There are no outgoing calls listed.
(c) The phone bill is in Tina Rutherford's name.
(d) The phone bill is in Cecil Walker's name.

6. Who has a habit of spying on Cindy Walker as she sunbathes on her deck?
(a) Larry.
(b) French.
(c) Silas.
(d) Wallace Stringfellow.

7. Who does French consider the main suspect in Larry's shooting?
(a) Cecil.
(b) Carl.
(c) Larry.
(d) Wallace Stringfellow.

8. Where does Silas say he is going instead when Angie starts to invite him to have coffee in the hospital cafeteria with her after seeing Larry?
(a) To the scene where the body had been found.
(b) To Chabot Town Hall.
(c) To Larry's house.
(d) To Angie's house.

9. What method does Carl force Larry and Silas to use in order to decide who gets to keep Carl's rifle?
(a) Drawing straws.
(b) Foot racing.
(c) Guessing a number between one and ten.
(d) Fighting.

10. What lack does Silas feel deeply as he walks home in the dark from Larry's house the only time he goes there during his adolescence?
(a) A friend.
(b) A father.
(c) A girlfriend.
(d) A job.

11. How old had Larry been on the night of his date with Cindy?
(a) 13.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 16.

12. For how many days has "the Rutherford girl" (1) been missing at the start of the novel?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 19.
(d) 3.

13. In what month does the novel begin?
(a) April.
(b) December.
(c) September.
(d) February.

14. In what year does Chapter 5 take place?
(a) 1979.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2018.
(d) 1992.

15. What object had been in Larry's hand when he had been found?
(a) A knife.
(b) A clothes hanger.
(c) A set of keys.
(d) A pistol.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what Saturday of Larry's summer vacation does Chapter 5 begin?

2. What is Larry's favorite genre of fiction?

3. What does Silas discover underneath the place where his bed had used to be within the cabin in the woods?

4. Who calls Silas on the phone during the moment he is shocked by one particular photograph in Larry's house?

5. When Silas and his mother Alice had been forced to move, which direction had she told Silas they would need to go in order to end up with people she knew?

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