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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Catherine realize about the dog she saw at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The same person who killed her father's nurse killed the dog.
(b) The dog was a potential witness to the crime.
(c) The dog must have belonged to her father's nurse.
(d) The dog must belong to the killer.

2. Who lived in Catherine's house before her parents?
(a) The Perkins.
(b) Her grandparents.
(c) Martin Barnes.
(d) A relative of Randall's.

3. What is the name of Sally Boone's baby?
(a) Sara.
(b) Suzy.
(c) Chrissy.
(d) Carrie.

4. How old is Catherine?
(a) Twenty-nine.
(b) Twenty-three.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty.

5. What does Catherine pass on her way to the tenant shack at the beginning of the novel?
(a) A farmer.
(b) A dead dog.
(c) A strawberry farm.
(d) A dead squirrel.

6. What does Catherine assume about the woman whose body she discovered because of the location?
(a) She was raped.
(b) She was dumb.
(c) She was poor.
(d) She had been kidnapped.

7. Who does the dispatcher call in while Catherine is in the sheriff's office?
(a) The deputies.
(b) The doctor.
(c) The FBI.
(d) Her mother.

8. Who does the body the Catherine discovers turn out to be?
(a) Leona Gaites.
(b) Shirley Meyers.
(c) Mary Sue Gibson.
(d) Lyle Gardner.

9. Where does Catherine want to go to buy new curtains and clothes?
(a) New York.
(b) Little Rock.
(c) Biloxi.
(d) Memphis.

10. What is the name of Molly Perkins' son?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Carl.
(c) Luke.
(d) Josh.

11. What does Catherine first notice when she looks in the door of the tenant house?
(a) A hand.
(b) A worn rug.
(c) A rat.
(d) A farmer's hat.

12. What does Tom reveal to Catherine that the sheriff's son is doing?
(a) Writing newstories.
(b) Stealing cars.
(c) Playing football.
(d) Selling dope.

13. Who is Molly Perkins?
(a) Jerry Selforth's new nurse.
(b) The librarian.
(c) The coroner's wife.
(d) Catherine's aunt.

14. What was the name of Catherine's father?
(a) Richard.
(b) Carter.
(c) Tom.
(d) Glenn.

15. Who left the beer in Catherine's refrigerator?
(a) Carl.
(b) Tom.
(c) Betty.
(d) Mary Jane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to visit Catherine at the end of Chapter 6?

2. What color did the tenant shack used to be?

3. Which of the following does NOT describe Molly Perkins?

4. What type of book is Catherine halfway through when the murder takes place?

5. Where did Leona Gaites die?

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