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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 Pickney describe Skink to Decker?
(a) As a worldly mentor.
(b) As a superior guide.
(c) As an eccentric recluse.
(d) As a fair employer.

2. When Decker leaves Skink's cabin after the two men plan to meet the next day in Orlando, where does Decker head?
(a) To see Catherine.
(b) To Morgan Slough.
(c) To his trailer.
(d) To see Lanie.

3. When Decker returns to his trailer after having dinner with Catherine, the phone is ringing. Who is calling Decker?
(a) Jim.
(b) Skink.
(c) Ozzie.
(d) Dennis.

4. What kind of proof does the person hiring Decker want of the cheating happening at fishing tournaments?
(a) Pictures.
(b) Audio recordings.
(c) Eyewitness accounts.
(d) Confessions.

5. How much money does Decker offer to Skink for Skink's services?
(a) $25.
(b) $75.
(c) $100.
(d) $500.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dickie Lockhart's competition for television bass fishing supremacy?

2. What kind of truck does Ott Pickney drive?

3. In the 1970s, what position was Clinton Tyree elected to?

4. What does Ott Pickney typically write for the Harney Sentinel?

5. How much money did Dennis Gault at one time offer to an undercover federal officer to kill Dickie Lockhart?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Weeb, why are round lakes fiscally irresponsible?

2. When Decker first sees the state trooper after arriving back in Harney, Decker notices something different about this trooper. What makes this trooper different from the others?

3. When Dickie goes to Weeb's hotel room in New Orleans, what is the rumor that Dickie has heard?

4. What does Jim Tile think will happen if Tile, Decker, and Skink report Pickney's body to the authorities?

5. What surprises Skink when he spies Bobby on the day that Bobby dies?

6. Why does the local pathologist who examines Bobby Clinch's body not do a thorough autopsy?

7. Why does Bobby Clinch like to drive in the fog?

8. In Weeb's mind, what is the difference between a canal and a lake?

9. Years earlier, when Dennis Gault offered money to an undercover federal officer to kill Dickie Lockhart, why wasn't Dennis arrested?

10. Why does Decker leave his first profession out of high school and accept a job at a local newspaper?

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