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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. What does Nash say he's done to make sure that the police will know what he knows?
(a) Left a letter that includes the details with a friend
(b) Has recorded their conversation
(c) Had an interview with the police
(d) Wrote a story for the newspaper

2. What does Carl say when Mona asks when he last "got laid?"
(a) He says he doesn't remember
(b) He says it was a week ago
(c) He doesn't answer
(d) He says it was twenty years earlier

3. Who is the last person the Stuarts talked to on their cell phones?
(a) Helen
(b) Carl
(c) Mona
(d) Duncan

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

5. Where does Carl and Helen meet for the second time?
(a) Helen's office
(b) A house that's for sale
(c) An antique store
(d) A secluded park

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the source of the light on the table in the bar when Carl meets Nash?

2. What is on the apron worn by the woman in the kitchen?

3. What does Helen say she wants to do with the original copy of the book?

4. What does the guy with sideburns say to the person on the cell phone?

5. Where does it seem the baby's cries are coming from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Carl come to believe that Helen killed the Stuarts?

2. What is the "Roadkill Jesus" and what kind of people are gathering because of it?

3. What does Carl say is the reason his series about sudden infant death syndrome is so compelling to readers, especially parents and grandparents?

4. What is the Mirror Book and who has one on the trip?

5. What are some of the myths about sudden infant death that Carl says have been disproved?

6. What does Carl say about the sounds he hears from his apartment?

7. Describe the actions and conversation of the man with the sideburns.

8. What is Helen's real estate business based on?

9. List the details Carl learns about the man in the trench coat that Carl killed.

10. Briefly describe three of three people Carl kills on the way back to his office.

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