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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the police’s response to Peggy’s disappearance?
(a) Slow and sloppy investigation.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Casual, professional curiosity.
(d) Feverish interest.

2. What is the only sound Peggy hears at night when she and Karen move into the shack?
(a) Trucks on the highway.
(b) Bullfrogs.
(c) Pine needles in the breeze.
(d) Crickets.

3. How do Peggy’s parents treat her children?
(a) They browbeat them.
(b) They ignore them.
(c) They spoil them.
(d) They lecture them.

4. What excuse does Peggy use for getting Karen Brown’s birth certificate?
(a) A research project.
(b) Helping the Browns with back taxes.
(c) A town survey.
(d) Helping the Browns request benefits.

5. What color does Lee’s friend Cary say Lee’s aura is?
(a) Crimson.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Pink.
(d) Dark blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lee Fleming go to college?

2. What kind of fur does Meg tell Karen a girl like her should wear?

3. Who does Peggy discover Lee sleeping with when she comes home from the lake?

4. What does the narrator say makes Peggy’s house like the Mekong Delta?

5. What does Meg say she is not willing to do in order to get good clothes for Karen?

(see the answer key)

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