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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. How does Sughrue describe Albert Griffith?
(a) Demeaning and cocky.
(b) Desperate to impress.
(c) Intelligent and impressive.
(d) Kind but slow.

2. When Sughrue arrives at the hotel room to seduce the nurse, Sughrue finds what?
(a) Trahearne already slept with the nurse.
(b) A party.
(c) Trahearne has moved into the second bed.
(d) An empty room.

3. What is C.W. Sughrue's occupation?
(a) Writer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Private investigator.
(d) Nurse.

4. What does Sughrue think about Betty Sue as the novel opens?
(a) That Betty Sue doesn't want to be found.
(b) That Betty Sue is a porn star.
(c) That Betty Sue is dead.
(d) That Betty Sue is imprisoned.

5. What does Catherine tell Sughrue to do when Trahearne leaves the hospital after recuperating from his gunshot wound?
(a) Be sure Trahearne starts on his way home.
(b) Don't get too close to Trahearne.
(c) Leave Trahearne behind.
(d) Take Trahearne to his mother's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Charles Gleeson know Betty Sue?

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

3. How long has Betty Sue been gone?

4. After driving for nineteen hours, where does Sughrue arrive?

5. When Gleeson saw Betty Sue after her disappearance, what was different about her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Trahearne's novels parallel his personality and life?

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

3. What is foreshadowed by Trahearne's eagerness to travel with Sughrue in the search for Betty Sue?

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

5. What does Charles Gleeson's relationship with Betty Sue symbolize?

6. Sughrue is uncomfortable about Catherine and Trahearne's mother living together. Why?

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

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

9. What events does the use of alcohol foreshadow as the book opens?

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

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