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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who bribed Randall's father?
(a) Randall's mother.
(b) A newspaper advertiser.
(c) Leona Gaites.
(d) A local politician.

2. What is Catherine able to tell just by looking at the cotton?
(a) It would provide a plentiful crop.
(b) It hadn't been tended to properly.
(c) It would make a sad crop.
(d) It was being picked prematurely.

3. What is the name of the pressman at the Gazette?
(a) Salton Sims.
(b) Carl Perkins.
(c) Randall Gerrard.
(d) Tom Mascalco.

4. Whose number was at the top of Tom's phone list?
(a) Sheriff Galton's.
(b) Randall's.
(c) His mother's.
(d) Catherine's.

5. Which of the following does NOT describe Carl Perkins?
(a) He is interested in Catherine romantically.
(b) He is Catherine's neighbor.
(c) He is the county coroner.
(d) He drives a white Lincoln.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the sheriff choose as the first person to attempt to cross the tenant shack's collapsed porch at the crime scene?

2. What is the name of the sheriff?

3. Who does Carl tell Catherine that Molly is scared for?

4. What does Catherine find in the tenant shack?

5. Why does Catherine go to the typesetter's desk?

(see the answer key)

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