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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. Who is Ralphie?
(a) Dan and Eleanor Hilliard's next door neighbor's son.
(b) Dan and Eleanor Hilliard's grandson.
(c) Dan and Eleanor Hilliard's son.
(d) The hit and run victim.

2. Why does Hank become melancholy?
(a) Because he will never have a girl like Cindy or live in a nice house like the Hilliards'.
(b) Because a pint of whiskey is barely enough to get high.
(c) Because he has no chance of ever getting out of prison alive if he is recaptured.
(d) Because his mother is very ill and Hank broke out to go see her.

3. What does Eleanor do after the house is empty of others?
(a) Calls her best friend for an early morning chat.
(b) Walks down the street to the Catholic church for mass.
(c) Makes another pot of coffee.
(d) Begins her housework.

4. What does Dan want to do?
(a) Have his family escape out the window.
(b) Flip the main circuit breaker.
(c) Initiate a gunfight.
(d) Call the police on his scanner.

5. What infuriates Dan?
(a) When his daughter begins to cry.
(b) When his son is handled roughly.
(c) When Eleanor screams.
(d) When the convicts laugh at Cindy's fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What outrages Dan?

2. How old is Cindy?

3. How long does Griffin say he plans to stay at the house?

4. How much whiskey does Dan bring home?

5. Where is a getaway car hidden?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is beginning to unnerve Hank?

2. What does Griffin want Dan and Cindy to do in the morning?

3. What raises tensions in the house?

4. What does Ralphie do when he comes home?

5. What does Griffin make clear to Cindy and Dan?

6. What do the police department do about their information?

7. What does Dan do when he arrives back at his house?

8. What does Griffin do at the Hilliard house that evening?

9. What does Dan do after Robish opens the front door?

10. What gives the sheriff's office a clue about the convicts?

(see the answer keys)

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