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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. Whose bald head is described as "a rock with weeds starting to grow on it"?
(a) Sergeant Motley's.
(b) Julio Segura's.
(c) The Cataouatche Parish sheriff's.
(d) Captain Guidry's.

2. In Chapter Two, who says, "put his head in a toilet"?
(a) Sergeant Motley.
(b) Captain Guidry.
(c) Cletus.
(d) The Cataouatche Parish sheriff.

3. What work had Dave's father done on Marsh Island?
(a) He was a bouree dealer.
(b) He worked on oil rigs.
(c) He worked as a trapper.
(d) He was unemployed.

4. What are the pro-capital punishment people singing in Chapter One?
(a) "In My Time of Dying."
(b) "Candle in the Wind."
(c) "This Bud's for You."
(d) "Glow, Little Glow Worm."

5. In Chapter Five, who says he is on a short leash?
(a) Didi Gee.
(b) Jimmie.
(c) Fitzpatrick.
(d) Dave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is is blaring from the maroon car that Dave flags down in Chapter Two?

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

3. On what street is Jimmie's restaurant located?

4. Fitzpatrick is in charge of monitoring what?

5. According to Dave, what is a busthead boilermaker?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Cletus Purcel.

2. What does Dave do to convince Annie Ballard that he is a New Orleans's cop?

3. What is Fitzpatrick's theory about what Segura is doing?

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

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

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

7. Describe Johnny Messina in Chapter One.

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

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

10. What clues make Dave suspicious of the Cataouatche Parish sheriff?

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