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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 is the name of the receptionist at the Lowfield Gazette?
(a) Sally.
(b) Claire.
(c) Mary Sue.
(d) Leila.
2. What does Catherine do at the end of Chapter 1 that enables her steady her nerves?
(a) She has a cigarette.
(b) She drinks a beer.
(c) She takes deep breaths.
(d) She screams.
3. What was Catherine's nickname in college?
(a) Shorty.
(b) Smiley.
(c) Sphinx.
(d) Cat.
4. Who is Sally Boone?
(a) Catherine's best friend.
(b) Jerry Selforth's new nurse.
(c) Tom Mascalco's fiance.
(d) Martin Barnes' daughter.
5. After Catherine tells the sheriff about her discovery, which of the following does he NOT offer her?
(a) A drink.
(b) A cigarette.
(c) A ride home.
(d) A tranquilizer.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the deputy whose job it is to take pictures of the scene?
2. What is Catherine irritated that she forgot when she came out to the tenant shack?
3. What is the dispatcher doing as Catherine enters the sheriff's office?
4. Who taught Catherine how to shoot?
5. What color did the tenant shack used to be?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Catherine find in the old, abandoned tenant house and what is her reaction?
2. What does Catherine learn from Salton Sims about Leona Gaites? How is his revelation verified?
3. What is the point of the buzzer that Catherine points out to Tom in his house? Does the author's inclusion of this indicate anything in the novel?
4. When does Catherine figure out who the killer is? How?
5. Describe the change in Catherine's character in Chapter 11? Does her personality seem to change at all? Who notices?
6. What information does Betty Eakins give to Catherine that could possibly help Catherine solve the crime?
7. From the descriptions in Chapter 1, describe where this novel is taking place.
8. What was Catherine and Randall's relationship like prior to the incident of Catherine discovering Leona Gaites' body? Why does the relationship head in a different directions afterward?
9. Why do Randall and Tom both pay Catherine a visit at her house after she comes home from the sheriff's office on the day she finds the body?
10. Who is the killer? What is his or her medical diagnosis and why does it lead to murder?
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