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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 the store in which Dave buys a newspaper smell like?
(a) Shrimp, oysters, and other fish.
(b) Wine, whiskey, and beer.
(c) Bananas, coffee, and cheese.
(d) Coconut, pineapple, and mango.

2. What drug do Murphy's men use to knock Dave out?
(a) Demoral.
(b) Haldol.
(c) Thorazine.
(d) Valium.

3. To whom does Dave initially go for information about finding Bobby Joe Starkweather?
(a) Didi Gee.
(b) Wesley Potts.
(c) Jimmie.
(d) Segura's driver.

4. What type of cigarette does the man in the raincoat smoke?
(a) Marlboro.
(b) Kool.
(c) Winston.
(d) Camel.

5. What kind of gun is Cletus using in Chapter Four?
(a) Beretta.
(b) Nine-millimeter.
(c) .45 automatic.
(d) .38 revolver.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Bobby Joe forces the mixture down Dave's throat in Chapter Six?

2. Who is the manager of the dance club where Dave goes in Chapter Five?

3. How many men jump Dave on his houseboat in Chapter Five?

4. Who asks Dave and Cletus if they "salted the mine shaft"?

5. From what TV show does Dave say it looks like Fitzpatrick escaped?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Fitzpatrick angry with Dave in Chapter Five?

2. Discuss Cletus' marital problems.

3. In Chapter Two, what is it about the dead girl that makes Dave suspicious?

4. What does Dave learn in Chapter Five that is related to the execution of Johnny Messina.

5. Dave sometimes thinks of whom as his "father's misplaced seed"?

6. Describe Julio Segura in Chapter Two.

7. What types of pistols does Dave own?

8. How does Cletus respond when Dave confronts him about provoking the situation with Segura and his man?

9. What does Dave learn about his partner from Julio Segura?

10. What concoction does Bobby Joe feed to Dave in Chapter Seven, and why?

(see the answer keys)

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