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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 do Bunny's parents do in the hopes of finding their son?
(a) Come to the school and demanded Bunny be found.
(b) Offered a large reward to anyone with information about their son.
(c) Called Henry and offered him money to find Bunny.
(d) Paid three detectives to interview all of Bunny's friends.

2. What game does the group play while Charles and Cloke go to Bunny's dorm room?
(a) Eucher.
(b) Canasta.
(c) Spades.
(d) Hearts.

3. What drug does Richard take from Judy while he is in her room?
(a) Demerol.
(b) Alka-Seltzer.
(c) LSD.
(d) Dramamine.

4. What about her son's death has Mrs. Corcoran concerned?
(a) That he had cancer.
(b) That he died dishonorably drunk.
(c) That he committed suicide.
(d) That he was a drug dealer.

5. From whom has Julian received a letter on Friday when Richard and Francis stop by?
(a) Bunny's parents.
(b) Bunny's brother.
(c) Bunny.
(d) Bunny's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry tell Julian while Richard and Francis are in the office?

2. What does Charles say he and Camilla did the night after the murder?

3. What does Charles find in Bunny's room and bring back for the group to see?

4. What is "Shady Brook'?

5. Where does Richard go after he leaves the off-campus party two days after the funeral?

Short Essay Questions

1. What issue does Richard struggle with after Bunny's death? To what does he attribute the group's actions?

2. What do the members of the group find peculiar about Bunny's father the day before the funeral?

3. Who is Cloke, and how does he appear in the story? What is important about his appearance?

4. What does Richard begin to understand about Henry as the novel draws to its climax?

5. What information does Cloke provide that causes the members of the group to realize the focus of the investigation might shift away from any suspicion being directed at them?

6. What poem does Henry read at Bunny's funeral and why? How does Richard respond to Henry's choice?

7. What do Charles and Francis argue about the day before the funeral? Of what does Richard feel this and the other arguments among the group members is symptomatic?

8. Why is Charles arrested during the month following Bunny's murder? Why is Henry concerned about this?

9. How does the group manage as the guests of the Corcorans in the days before Bunny's funeral?

10. After Bunny dies, what positive qualities about his personality come to light from his other friends at school?

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