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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 has Presley recently been diagnosed with?
(a) Kidney failure.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Lung disease.
(d) Heart murmurs.

2. Which of the characters at the fundraising party is an alcoholic?
(a) Maude Marston.
(b) Leo Marston.
(c) Tom Cage.
(d) Ray Presley.

3. For whom is the fundraising party being held?
(a) Austin Mackey.
(b) Shad Johnson.
(c) John Portman.
(d) Riley Warren.

4. Who is Payton's widow?
(a) Althea.
(b) Livy.
(c) Marie.
(d) Ruby.

5. In what year was Payton murdered?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1967.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom feel to this day about Hillman's murder?

2. Who does the person following Penn believe was responsible for the murder of Payton?

3. As Chapter Five opens, to whom does Penn grant an interview?

4. Who picks up Penn and his daughter from the airport?

5. What kind of gun was used to kill Hillman?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Penn's mother confesses why she has been upset, why is Penn stunned by her news?

2. Why is Penn confused by the comments made by the woman who threw the drink in Penn's face at the fundraising party?

3. When Penn sees Mackey at the fundraising party, why is Mackey angry with Penn?

4. Why does Shad Johnson want Penn to leave the Payton case alone?

5. When the two women leave Tom's house, what has Penn decided to do for them?

6. When Penn asks his father if he ever found out the reason behind Marston's attack, what is Tom's reply?

7. When Penn first confronts his father about what's bothering his father, how does Tom react?

8. Why does Sam Jacobs warn Penn about the Payton murder as they leave the fund-raising party?

9. After Hanratty is convicted, what does Hanratty's brother do?

10. Why did Presley return the gun he borrowed from Tom?

(see the answer keys)

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