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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willie tell Harry Rex he is thinking about doing?
(a) Going to Padgitt island
(b) Moving from Ford County
(c) Selling the paper
(d) Marrying

2. What is Paster Cooper's sermon about in Chapter 34?
(a) Tolerance and love
(b) Social drinking
(c) Desegregation
(d) Ten Commandments

3. What does Willie say they will have to give if they want the paper?
(a) 1.5 million
(b) 2 million
(c) 1.2 million plus a job for Sam Ruffin
(d) 1 million plus a permanent office for Willie to stay in

4. What does Ollie call his late night 'varmit' hunting?
(a) Zipperhead huntin'
(b) Gook huntin'
(c) Fun
(d) Looking for demons

5. What does Sheriff McNaught ask Willie for?
(a) A ride back into town
(b) A list of jurors
(c) Harry Rex's number
(d) His story about Lenny's accident

6. What does Harry Rex demand his friends keep quiet?
(a) Harry Rex's girlfriend
(b) The secrete of the goat roast
(c) The back room at Pepe's
(d) Danny Padgitt's trial

7. Where does Willie go after Hank Hooten kills himself?
(a) To the mental institution
(b) Home
(c) To the office
(d) To talk to a shrink

8. What does Sheriff McNaught tell Maxine Root's brothers to do?
(a) Stay close to their sister
(b) Stay away from Padgitt island
(c) Take off their stupid hats
(d) Keep their guns in their trucks

9. What happens to Callie in Chapter 44?
(a) Another stroke
(b) Cancer is found
(c) A lung collapses
(d) Another heart attack

10. What does Willie do after receiving death threats?
(a) Moves
(b) Buys a guard dog
(c) Calls the FBI
(d) Puts new locks on all the doors

11. What was Mo Teale called during the Padgitt trials?
(a) Mr. John Deere
(b) Big Smith
(c) Bubba
(d) Farmer Man

12. What is supposedly in the box that came from Maxine Root's sister?
(a) Pecans
(b) Almonds
(c) Fruit
(d) Firecrackers

13. What does Ollie use while hunting?
(a) Bow and arrow
(b) Full camo
(c) Grenades
(d) Night-vision goggles

14. Who speaks out against Danny's parole in Chapter 36?
(a) Wiley Meek
(b) Sheriff McNatt
(c) Baggy
(d) Willie

15. What does Willie say makes it impossible for him to leave town?
(a) Until the elections were over
(b) Until Callie was better
(c) The killings
(d) Until the paper was fully taken over

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Callie's house become?

2. How many years does it take the renovators to finish Willie's house?

3. What is the name of the big store coming to Clayton?

4. How many churches does Willie make a list of in Ford County?

5. What is the last thing Willie writes for the newspaper?

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