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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Helen say Carl needs to do if he wants to learn to control this power?
(a) Attend a Wiccan meeting
(b) Practice patience
(c) Nothing
(d) Take anger management classes

2. What is the image the owners usually see reflected in the water in the tub?
(a) A baby
(b) A wrinkled face
(c) A pig
(d) The Grim Reaper

3. What are among the possible causes cited in the newspaper article?
(a) Poison gases
(b) Heart attacks
(c) The culling song
(d) Plague or drugs

4. Where does the face of the barbiturate suicide appear?
(a) A staircase
(b) A tub filled with water
(c) A window
(d) A mirror

5. What does Carl discover after saying the culling poem in the shower?
(a) That he was probably heard in the apartment next door
(b) That there's a vent that carries sound to other apartments
(c) That everyone has turned off their televisions and music
(d) That it's suddenly silent in the rest of the building

6. What does Carl say he wants to tell every family that has lost a child?
(a) That they are not to blame
(b) To take up a hobby
(c) To see a counselor
(d) That they are to blame

7. What is on the table in Helen's real estate office?
(a) A flower arrangement
(b) Miniature houses
(c) High-end magazines
(d) Photos of houses for sale

8. What is it that's hanging around Oyster's neck?
(a) A magical amulet to deflect the culling song
(b) A Hopi medicine bag
(c) A locket
(d) A dreamcatcher

9. What is Nash eating when Carl meets him in the bar?
(a) Onion dip
(b) Celery
(c) A burger
(d) Chips and dip

10. What does the man in the trench coat do to make Carl angry?
(a) Shoves him and calls him a name
(b) Refuses to move out of the way
(c) Yells at an old woman
(d) Throws a newspaper on the ground

11. What is the setting for the story Carl reads about the 1983 case in which the nurse's aide kills a patient?
(a) Florence, Italy
(b) New York, New York
(c) Lincoln, Nebraska
(d) Vienna, Austria

12. What is the headline on the newspaper Nash hands Carl?
(a) Seven dead in mystery plague
(b) Group looks for mystery book
(c) Culling song revealed
(d) Newspaper reporter sought in deaths

13. Why does Carl say he's asking about the deaths in his building?
(a) He says there's a weird stain on his ceiling
(b) He says that he accidentally sang the culling song
(c) He says the water tasted funny
(d) He says he smells an odd odor

14. What does Carl say is standard procedure with regard to a parent's role in a baby's death?
(a) To keep them away from the crime scene
(b) To assume that they are to blame
(c) To question them separately
(d) To assure them that they've done nothing wrong

15. Who is the radio personality Carl kills?
(a) Mr. Ed
(b) Rev. Flatt
(c) Judge Judy
(d) Dr. Sara

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carl say is the only fact known about sudden infant death syndrome?

2. What is the purpose of the fur coat smeared with ketchup?

3. What does the "flying virgin" write across the New Mexican sky?

4. What is near the bowl of oranges?

5. What does Carl say is the only pattern in crib deaths?

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