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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. Who scares Stephanie the morning after her apartment was robbed?
(a) Roberta.
(b) Morelli.
(c) Spiro.
(d) The Sandman.

2. What does Morelli take from Stephanie, without her permission?
(a) Kenny's credit card bill.
(b) Kenny's mail order catalogues and the records of orders he placed.
(c) Kenny's address book, offering up leads to major criminals.
(d) Kenny's phone bill, showing calls to Mexico and Salvador.

3. Why is Connie from the bond office upset at beginning of Chapter Five?
(a) The office has no business and might go under.
(b) Connie has just discovered she is pregnant.
(c) Connie might lose her job.
(d) The file clerk quit.

4. What does Stephanie receive at the opening of Chapter Three?
(a) An invitation to the funeral home.
(b) A tip on Moogey's death.
(c) A threatening, unsigned letter.
(d) Another lecture from her mother about getting married.

5. What does Stephanie give Morelli at the beginning of Chapter Six?
(a) A broken radio.
(b) Orange juice.
(c) A broom and a dust pan.
(d) Eggs for breakfast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vinnie do to cause a problem with the female file clerk?

2. At the Sandman's apartment, what does Stephanie leave with the neighbor?

3. How does Eula, the homeless woman, escape from Stephanie?

4. Why is Stephanie suspicious of the Sandman at the beginning of Chapter Five?

5. What is the tip-off Lula provides Stephanie in Chapter Seven?

Short Essay Questions

1. Stephanie attends dinner with her grandmother hoping to get a lead on her case through neighborhood gossip. The grandmother invites Stephanie to dinner in hopes that she will connect with Spiro, the surprise dinner guest. What do these actions say about the relationship of these women to each other?

2. Why does Grandma Mazur pull the finger off of the corpse at the funeral home?

3. The size of the Buick is used as a commentary piece regarding what?

4. What device does the author use to create a past between Stephanie and Morelli?

5. Why does Stephanie hire a former prostitute to work for Vinnie?

6. What does the hamster Rex offer to Stephanie? How does this contrast with Morelli?

7. Does the fact that the stolen guns are from Fort Braddock mean that Kenny is guilty?

8. Why do the residents of the 'Burg see it as unusual for Stephanie to be single?

9. Why does Stephanie visit dangerous suspects without back-up?

10. When Spiro produces an unsigned letter much like the one Stephanie received, what does this device achieve?

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