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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 does the nurse, Sughrue and Trahearne do the morning after Sughrue and the nurse's date?
(a) They grumpily leave each other.
(b) They go sightseeing together.
(c) They recover from a hangover.
(d) They have a playful breakfast.

2. What plans does Sughrue make with a nurse while visiting Trahearne?
(a) A date.
(b) A shopping trip.
(c) Home visits for Trahearne.
(d) Discharge paperwork.

3. Where does Sughrue find the first visitor on the list of Betty Sue's friends?
(a) His home.
(b) The movie theater.
(c) Church.
(d) A shopping center.

4. What does Rosie think about Betty Sue at the beginning of the novel?
(a) That Betty Sue is a prostitute.
(b) That Betty Sue is happily married somewhere.
(c) That Betty Sue works for the government.
(d) That Betty Sue is alive.

5. What has Betty Sue's father revealed to Peggy?
(a) She is dead.
(b) Betty Sue lives in a commune in Oregon.
(c) He isn't Betty Sue's real father.
(d) He doesn't want to see her.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Saghure tries to leave Peggy's side, what is Trahearne trying to do?

2. What activity do Rosie and Sughrue partake in to calm themselves after the police questioning?

3. Who pays Sughrue's bill in the search for Trahearne?

4. Who does Sughrue encounter during a walk through the woods?

5. How does Peggy feel about Betty Sue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sughrue's drastic actions with Jackson say about his involvement in the case?

2. Is Edna's treatment of Sughrue out of character for her? Why?

3. How does Trahearne's interpretation of Catherine align with what the audience knows about her?

4. What tone is set when Sughrue says people in his business need "a moral certitude that I no longer even claimed to possess"?

5. Sughrue and the nurse connect quickly. What side of his personality does this event reveal?

6. How does Sughrue treat Charles Gleeson? Why?

7. How does Sughrue's remark about his job and "the chase being over" indirectly characterize him?

8. What prompts Sughrue to say he will "rise and do what [he] knew he had to do, to what [he] owed the women"?

9. How does Betty Sue have the power to make Sughrue fall under her spell when they have never met?

10. How do Selma Hinds' actions characterize her?

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