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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who describes killing as "There's no rush in the world like it"?
(a) The General.
(b) Serial killer.
(c) Cletus.
(d) Murphy.

2. With what group does Andres say he served in Nicaragua for seven years?
(a) Rebels.
(b) National Guard.
(c) Sandanistas
(d) Army.

3. Dave realizes that his brother had been trying to trace initials on his chest on that day in the hospital after Jimmie's first surgery. Whose initials did Jimmie trace?
(a) Didi Gee.
(b) Annie Ballard.
(c) Cletus Purcel.
(d) Jerome Abshire.

4. Where do Dave and Annie move at the end of the book?
(a) Key West.
(b) New Iberia.
(c) French Quarter.
(d) Lafayette.

5. With what is Dave charged?
(a) Carrying a concealed firearm.
(b) Breaking and entering.
(c) Public drunkenness.
(d) Assault and battery.

6. What does Cletus' sun porch resemble?
(a) A leaky boat.
(b) A place to be condemned.
(c) A crackerbox.
(d) Four boards nailed together.

7. For whom does Dave suggest setting high bond when talking with Captain Guidry?
(a) Cletus.
(b) Himself.
(c) Didi Gee.
(d) The hired killer who shot Jimmie.

8. Where is Dave's morning AA meeting located in Chapter Ten?
(a) French Quarter.
(b) Garden District.
(c) Near Lake Ponchartrain.
(d) Near the police station.

9. With whom does Dave make friends in the hospital where his brother is?
(a) His brother's nurse from New Iberia.
(b) A Catholic sister from France.
(c) An elderly Cajun lady from Thibodaux.
(d) A surgical resident from India.

10. Who translates for Dave when Didi Gee sends over the Nicaraguan with information in Chapter Nine?
(a) His bartender.
(b) Captain Guidry.
(c) Annie.
(d) Cuban horse trainer.

11. What does Dave read while waiting for the valet at the Gulf Shores restaurant?
(a) "A Passage to India."
(b) "A History of the South."
(c) "A Farewell to Arms."
(d) "To Kill a Mockingbird."

12. Beauvoir is referred to as what in Chapter Ten?
(a) A street in Biloxi.
(b) A waiter at the restaurant.
(c) Jefferson Davis' home.
(d) A town on the Gulf Coast.

13. In Chapter Twelve, who says that he wants to apologize to Dave?
(a) Cletus.
(b) Captain Guidry.
(c) General Abshire.
(d) Nate Baxter.

14. Who says, "You must get up in the morning and brush your teeth in the toilet"?
(a) Baxter.
(b) Wineburger.
(c) Fitzpatrick's superviser.
(d) Cletus.

15. In Chapter 12, where does Dave discover the location of the warehouse?
(a) Jefferson Parish Courthouse.
(b) Information from a snitch.
(c) Times-Picayune newspaper.
(d) Police reports.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Chapter Eight ends, what color are the palm trees against the sky?

2. What charges are on the complaint that Dave files against the Nicaraguan?

3. Who says, "It's going to rain frogs" at the end of Chapter Twelve?

4. Who approaches Dave in Jackson Square about meeting with Didi Gee?

5. Where does Dave spend the night after first confronting the General?

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