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Progress: 1 of 32 questions
Timeless glass coffins
In the beginning the old man is dying of what?
A gunshot wound to the head
Lung cancer
Chirrosis of the liver
Syphilis
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Progress: 2 of 32 questions
Why was Fleming's manuscript returned?
It was too long
Terrible grammer
No body would believe it
It was hand written
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She was as square and solid and unlovely as a wooden packing crate. Her high-complexioned moon shaped face bloomed with the high blood pressure she suffered from and her hair was dyed a hard bright orange that nature would have been hard put to replicate. Who is this?
Raven's mother
Dee
Cora
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He was small and freckled and intense.
Slightly hunched as if something inside him was winding itself up and as it tightened drawing him toward his own center. His curly red hair sprang out wildly from beneath the felt hat he wore and his eyes burned incandescent as a cat's eyes in the lamplight. Childhood polio had marked him with a warped leg that limped still when he walked and left him perhaps as well with other warpings not as visible to the naked eye. Who is this?
Brady, the son
E. F. Bloodworth, the old man
Fleming. the grandson
Woodall, the contractor
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Progress: 5 of 32 questions
What natural phenomenon is one of our recurring companions?
Fish
Water
Sycamore trees
The ocean
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Progress: 6 of 32 questions
Why does Boyd leave?
To join the army
To go to Parchment Prison
To follow his wife and the salesman to Detroit
To run from the revenuers
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Progress: 7 of 32 questions
What does Fleming put on lay-a-way at the Breece's Variety Store?
A Smith & Wesson 45
A double barreled shotgun
A wheelbarrow
A Remington typewriter
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Progress: 8 of 32 questions
Why is Junior Albright hiding from Woodall?
He broke the crimper
The botched the cement job
The scafflolding fell
He called Woodall a SOB
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Progress: 9 of 32 questions
What was Brady's hidden talent?
ESP
Hexes
Hearing messages from God
Talking in tongues
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Progress: 10 of 32 questions
What kind of knife did Boyd have?
Switchblade
Hawkbill
Bowie
Mule skinner
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Progress: 11 of 32 questions
How was it that E F Bloodworth ended up in the state penitentiary?
Shot a deputy
Moonshining
Stealing
Cheating at cards
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Progress: 12 of 32 questions
Why did Albright go see Brady?
Buy a Black Angus bull
Get his fortune told
To put a hex on Woodall
Buy some hootch
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Progress: 13 of 32 questions
Where did Warren earn his war medals?
The Somme
Normandy beach
Anzio
The Tet Offensive
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Progress: 14 of 32 questions
Another recurring image.
Blood red lined horizon
Mules pulling a plow
Hangman's noose
Dead trees
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Progress: 15 of 32 questions
Albright painted a roof for a widow. What did she pay him with?
Sexual favors
Nothin
A mule
A hog
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What was the radio show they all listened too?
The Lester Flatt and Earl Skruggs Show
The Grand Ole Opry
The Shadow
A Prarie Home Companion
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Who was the prettiest girl in three counties?
Cora
Dee
Raven Lee Halfacre
Woodalls wife
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There was something oddly restful about (them). He couldn't put his finger on it but he drew comfort from it anyway. The way they'd seemed not separate entities but a single being, a moving river of light that flowed above the dark water like its negative image and attained a transient and fragile dominion over the provinces of night. What are they?
Sparrows
Monarch Moths
Blowing leaves
Fireflies
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Progress: 19 of 32 questions
What weapon did Boyd use?
Garrot
Hawkbill knife
Smith & Wesson 45
Blackjack
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Progress: 20 of 32 questions
What was E F Bloodworth's favorite instrument?
Gibson banjo
Marten Double F guitar
Flute
Upright bass
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Progress: 21 of 32 questions
What was the beer they drank?
Schlitz
Hamms
Falstaff
Pabst Blue Ribbon
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Progress: 22 of 32 questions
How did Woodall come to his end?
Plane crash into a mountain
Fell off a roof
Nail stuck him in the throat
His wife tripped him down the stairs
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What fell from the sky at Bloodworth's feet?
Diamondback rattlesnake
Bird poop
Frog
Balloon
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Progress: 24 of 32 questions
What damage did Fleming cause to Albright's car?
Blown head gasket
Flat tire
Ripped muffler
Smashed radio
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Progress: 25 of 32 questions
Why was Albright's car painted yellow.
It was a taxi
To match his girlfriend's dress.
To get back at someone for calling him yellow
The only color in the barn
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Progress: 26 of 32 questions
How did Albright square things up with dead man Woodall?
Rebuilt the truck engine
Painted the house
Fixed the barn
Shagged his wife
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Progress: 27 of 32 questions
Who took up with Woodall's wife?
Fleming
The foreman
Old man Bloodworth
Junior Albright
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Progress: 28 of 32 questions
Who was the father of Raven's child?
Fleming
Neal
Brady
The foreman
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Progress: 29 of 32 questions
What was Fleming doing while he watched his house burn?
Drinking rot gut whiskey
Running for help
Drinking coffee
Cursing Brady
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Progress: 30 of 32 questions
How did E F Bloodworth die?
Rattlesnake bite
Gunshot to the head
Brady hit him with a shovel
Fell down the well
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Progress: 31 of 32 questions
Where did Fleming leave to?
Join the Navy
Detroit looking for Brody
Went west with Raven
He stayed
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Progress: 32 of 32 questions
What was happening to the valley?
It was being filled for a lake.
It was bought by a logging company
Absorbed into a large cotton plantation
The city was overtaking it
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