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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 name of Penn's bodyguard?
(a) Sam Jones.
(b) Arthur Menden.
(c) Frank Kelly.
(d) Dan Kelly.

2. As Penn and Stone part, what does Stone promise to do if he survives the night?
(a) Protect Penn.
(b) Make things right.
(c) Testify against Marston.
(d) Apologize to Althea.

3. As Stone and Penn rush from the house with bullets flying behind them, where do the two men flee?
(a) To the truck.
(b) To the forest.
(c) To the river.
(d) To the barn.

4. What does Penn promise Caitlin in exchange for her help with the Payton case?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Book rights.
(c) An exclusive.
(d) $50,000.

5. Why had J. Edgar Hoover taken the Payton file after Stone had solved the case?
(a) To protect Marston.
(b) To hire Marston.
(c) To get Nixon elected.
(d) To blackmail Nixon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the eyewitness's name that Penn tracks down upon his return to Natchez?

2. Who does Penn end up going to Biscuits and Blues with for drinks?

3. What does Caitlin learn from a phone call that she receives at her office?

4. How does Althea react when Penn tells her that he's going to investigate Payton's murder?

5. After the accusations are published, Penn hires private bodyguards for his family. From where does he hire the bodyguards?

Short Essay Questions

1. What announcement does the person Penn sees getting off an airplane in Baton Rouge make that shocks Penn?

2. Why did Caitlin originally not want to publish Penn's accusations about Marston in her paper?

3. When Annie is returned to Penn, there is also a note for Penn. What does the note say?

4. What happened to the woman in the car when she revealed what she had seen the night of the Payton murder?

5. Why does Caitlin change her mind about publishing Penn's accusations in her paper?

6. What advice does Penn's Colorado interviewee give to Penn regarding the Payton case?

7. When Penn arrives at his interview in Colorado, the interviewee does not want to talk. What changes the interviewee's mind?

8. Where does the judge who orders the boxes removed from the Marston family home for safekeeping have the boxes taken to?

9. At Ruby's funeral, Shad Johnson gets up to speak. What does Johnson say?

10. What does Penn learn from the eyewitness that Penn tracks down upon his return to Natchez?

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