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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 widow Rattner's first name?
(a) Millie.
(b) Marie.
(c) Mildred.
(d) Mamie.
2. Why is Ownby going to be arrested?
(a) For gun smuggling.
(b) For murder.
(c) For defacing the government tank.
(d) For bootlegging.
3. Why do Gifford and some other policemen arrive at Ownby's house?
(a) To question him.
(b) To arrest him.
(c) To see if he needs anything.
(d) To take him to a funeral.
4. To whom does John Wesley show the mangled mink?
(a) Mildred.
(b) Sylder.
(c) Ownby.
(d) Warn.
5. Which is true of the orchard keeper's environment when he awakens?
(a) Nothing is stirring.
(b) All of these.
(c) Everything is quiet.
(d) It has snowed.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Uncle Ather's job?
2. How much money does John Wesley leave for the chickenhawk even though he could not get the corpse?
3. What does John Wesley find in his trap the next day?
4. What type of animal devours the wildcat?
5. With what other offense could John Wesley be charged?
Short Essay Questions
1. What information does John Wesley give to Gifford and what does Sylder say about it?
2. How does Arthur stand firm in an attempt to evade the police and find an even more isolated location?
3. How else might the irony of Sylder and John Wesley's friendship be interpreted?
4. Who are the boys that John Wesley meets and what do they do?
5. Why can the authorities not be absolutely certain that the corpse is that of Kenneth Rattner and what do they tell Rattner's widow?
6. Why does McCarthy wait until this point in the story to reveal the orchard keeper's formal name?
7. Describe Sylder's booking in the police department.
8. How does John Wesley manage to get into the mental asylum to visit Ownby?
9. Does it appear that Arthur is completely anti-social?
10. What are John Wesley and Warn's speculation on what had happened to the mink?
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