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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. According to Jeff Miller, who loans Tommy Ward a pickup truck to go get more beer the night Denice Haraway goes missing?
(a) Tricia Wolf.
(b) Karl Fontenot.
(c) Gary Rogers.
(d) Jannette Roberts.

2. According to the austere law books in regards to a murder trial, you do not need a body if __________.
(a) There are no suspects.
(b) The circumstantial evidence is strong enough.
(c) The suspect does not have an alibi.
(d) Someone confesses to the murder.

3. What is the prescribed method of execution in the state of Oklahoma?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Electric chair.
(c) Decapitation.
(d) Lethal poison.

4. Who is Marie Titsworth in relation to Odell Titsworth?
(a) His wife.
(b) His sister.
(c) His mother.
(d) His aunt.

5. Of all the Ward children, who is considered the most ambitious?
(a) Kay Ward.
(b) Joice Ward.
(c) Tommy Ward.
(d) Joel Ward.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the two defendants, Ward and Fontenot, does Karen Wise positively identify in Chapter 7?

2. What does Jim Moyer tell Karen Wise after he finishes testifying that Ward and Fontenot were the two men he had seen in McAnally's?

3. What do the bright yellow ribbons placed around a tree near the burned down house represent?

4. According to the narrator, who is brutally raped and strangled in her apartment on December 8, 1982?

5. C.L. Wolf is the only man in Ada who can fix __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What six courses of action does Don Wyatt outline for Richard Kerner to pursue in Chapter 8?

2. In Chapter 8, how does Bud Wolf feel after he begins to recall the times that he and Tommy Ward had shared?

3. Describe the dream Arlene Cameron has in Chapter 5.

4. Describe the city of Ada as it is described in Chapter 1.

5. What information does Jeff Miller give to Detective Dennis Smith at the beginning of Chapter 3?

6. Why does Barney Ward not want to represent Tommy Ward in Chapter 5?

7. In Chapter 4, how does Tricia Ward's father react when she tells him her brother Jimmy was smoking marijuana?

8. Describe Debbie Carter's murder case as describe by the narrator.

9. Discuss the spectators who watch the trials going on in the courthouse, as described by the narrator in Chapter 7.

10. What two important items does the manager of McAnally's convenience store clean up at the end of Chapter 1? Why are these items important to the disappearance of Denice Haraway?

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