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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 was Tamara Quinn's greatest secret that she kept from her family?
(a) She went to a therapist.
(b) She was not really Jenny's mother.
(c) She had a love affair.
(d) She did not really own the restaurant.

2. Which relative of Luther Caleb's did Marcus and Gahalowood go to interview?
(a) His sister.
(b) His mother.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

3. What did Chief Pratt force Nola to do when he picked her up in his car in the summer of 1975?
(a) He forced her to perform the same sex act that she had done in his office weeks earlier.
(b) He forced her to hit him.
(c) He forced her to sing for him.
(d) He forced her to tell him who she was having an affair with.

4. What had Deborah Cooper been doing the afternoon Nola disappeared?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Reading a book.
(c) Working in her garden.
(d) Making an apple pie.

5. What did Travis Dawn do to Luther when he found him driving around Somerset in 1975?
(a) He beat Luther savagely.
(b) He made Luther kill somebody else.
(c) He cut off Luther's ear.
(d) He arrested Luther.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the message written in lipstick on the mirror in the bathroom at the gala in 1975 say that shocked Harry?

2. What did David Kellergan do when he discovered Nola was missing the week she spent with Harry at Martha's Vineyard?

3. Why did Travis Dawn get so upset with Luther Caleb in the summer of 1975?

4. What is the name of the actress that Marcus used to date?

5. Why was Harry afraid to leave his house at Goose Cove in the autumn of 1975?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prevented Gahalowood and Marcus from asking former Police Chief Pratt why he did not include the information about Luther Caleb's death in his report on Nola's murder?

2. Why was the handwriting analysis of the writing on The Origin of Evil transcript that was buried with Nola so important and whose handwriting was it?

3. What did Sylla tell Marcus and Gahalowood about the effect Luther's beating had on him?

4. What did Harry tell Marcus about working on an idea for writing in terms of time frames?

5. Why did Marcus tell his publisher he did not want to accept the help of ghostwriters for his book on Harry?

6. Why did Nola agree to pose nude for Luther?

7. How did Harry react when Marcus told him about finding the painting of Nola in Elijah Stern's house?

8. Where was Luther Caleb's body found and what did Gahalowood and Marcus think was strange about it?

9. Why did Tamara Quinn tell her therapist that she is so mean to her daughter Jenny?

10. Why did Ernie Pinkas, the part-time Somerset librarian, ask Marcus to put his name in the acknowledgement section of his book?

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