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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the book say the whole town was talking about at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Anne.
(b) The good weather.
(c) The bad weather.
(d) Anne's child.

2. The child ask Anne if they are going to walk where?
(a) By the seashore.
(b) By the mountains.
(c) By a lake.
(d) To a store.

3. How many years ago did Anne get married?
(a) 10.
(b) 11.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

4. What reason does Anne tell the man she closes her window at night?
(a) She likes it closed.
(b) It is hot.
(c) It is cold.
(d) The scent of magnolia is overpowering.

5. What is the first subject the man at the bar brings up when he first addresses Anne?
(a) Wine.
(b) The murder the previous day.
(c) Her child.
(d) The weather.

6. Who eventually stops the music lesson to investigate the source of the loud noise outside heard in Chapter 1?
(a) No one.
(b) The teacher.
(c) The child.
(d) Anne.

7. What type of tree does the man describe as one of the most beautiful in Anne's garden?
(a) Dogwood.
(b) Beech.
(c) Oak.
(d) Sycamore.

8. Which of the following does the patronne not say about the dead woman?
(a) She had three children.
(b) She was married.
(c) She drank.
(d) She was pretty.

9. What type of flower does the man tell Anne was between her breasts at the factory worker's party the previous year?
(a) A carnation.
(b) A magnolia.
(c) A rose.
(d) A violet.

10. Whom does Anne describe as "talented enough, but doesn't apply himself"?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The man.
(c) Her child.
(d) Her father.

11. What gender and age is the child?
(a) Young male.
(b) Teenage male.
(c) Young female.
(d) Teenage female.

12. Who says, "all I know is that he shot her through the heart"?
(a) The patronne.
(b) Anne.
(c) The child.
(d) The man at the bar.

13. Near the end of Chapter 1, from whom do the police take a statement?
(a) The dead woman's husband.
(b) The teacher.
(c) Anne.
(d) The bar patronne.

14. What does Anne tell the man at the bar she does with her child everyday?
(a) Buys him a toy.
(b) Takes him on a boat ride.
(c) Feeds him.
(d) Takes him on a walk.

15. Whom does the child say did not make the noise in the cafe?
(a) The patronne.
(b) The dead woman's husband.
(c) Anne.
(d) The teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 2, what are the child and Anne walking toward?

2. At the end of Chapter 1, who is standing with Anne's child when she returns from the scene in the cafe?

3. Who says, "I'm not used to going so far away from home"?

4. What is described as "bouncing up and down" on the child's back at the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. What habit does Anne admit to the man that she has acquired?

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