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Barry LygaI Hunt Killers
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Reading Check, Multiple Choice & Short Answer Quizzes
Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.
Chapters 1-6
Reading Check
1. What piece of evidence does the state office find?
2. What kind of vehicle does Jazz drive?
3. What was the event that first brought G. William and Jazz together?
4. Why is Jazz furious at the end of Chapter 2?
Multiple Choice
1. What kind of blood disorder does Jazz’s best friend have?
A) hemophilia
B) anemia
C) thalassemia
D) leukocytosis
2. Why do Jazz and Howie break into the morgue in Chapter 3?
A) to plant evidence that will frame G. Williams for the murder of Jane Doe
B) to get a closer look at the body of Jane Doe, so Jazz can do his own investigation
C) to look through the morgue files, so Jazz can learn more information on Billy Dent
D) to hide from police officers, who are searching Lobo’s Nod for Jazz
3. What does Howie do that delays Jazz and him from leaving the morgue?
A) has an anxiety attack
B) loses his keys
C) gets lost trying to find the bathroom
D) has a nosebleed
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. What are some of the features of Jazz’s recurring nightmare?
2. What is the rule the Impressionist recalls in Chapter 6?
Chapters 7-14
Reading Check
1. What is Jazz’s personal mantra?
2. What is the play being rehearsed in Jazz’s drama class?
3. Who is the unexpected visitor at Gramma Dent’s house when Jazz comes home from school in Chapter 8?
4. What piece of evidence does Howie find in the creek?
Multiple Choice
1. What does the Impressionist always keep in his pocket?
A) a red wallet
B) a gold necklace
C) a piece of paper
D) a Swiss army knife
2. Where does the Impressionist ponder his next victim in Chapter 10?
A) an a bench just outside Jazz’s school
B) an a dumpster just outside Jazz’s home
C) at a table in a café
D) under a bridge, near the creek
3. Who does Jazz nearly hit with his car while driving home from school?
A) Howie
B) Gramma Dent
C) G. William
D) Jeff Fulton
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Who is the Impressionist’s victim in Chapter 13, and what is her occupation?
2. What illicit activity does Melissa Hoover accuse Jazz of in Chapter 14?
Chapters 15-21
Reading Check
1. What is Carla O’Donnelly’s official cause of death according to G. William?
2. Where do police find Helen Myerson’s body?
3. What does Billy theorize about the killer in Chapter 17?
Multiple Choice
1. What does Jazz put in Gramma Dent’s soup?
A) Prozac
B) Benadryl
C) a splash of whiskey
D) Xanax
2. Jazz sees a man in a ski mask fleeing from Ginny Davis’ apartment building. What color are the man’s eyes?
A) green
B) brown
C) blue
D) gray
3. Why do paramedics refuse to administer medication to Howie in Chapter 20?
A) Howie forgot to wear his medical bracelet.
B) They do not have the medicine Howie needs in the ambulance.
C) They need to run tests on Howie before they can administer anything.
D) They refuse to help any friend of Jazz.
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Why does Jazz break Doug Weathers’ cell phone ?
2. Why does Jazz tell Howie he wants to give up in the search for the killer?
Chapters 22-30
Reading Check
1. When Jazz gets home to Gramma Dent’s after visiting Howie in the hospital, what strange feeling passes over him?
2. What assessment does Melissa make about Gramma Dent in Chapter 23?
3. What does Gramma Dent say about Jazz that he can’t stop ruminating on in Chapter 24?
Multiple Choice
1. The Impressionist thinks of a metaphor to describe the nature of control. What is the primary imagery of his metaphor?
A) a dog on a leash
B) a puppet on strings
C) a rat in a cage
D) a cult in a trance
2. Where is the candlelight vigil for Ginny Davis held?
A) the school auditorium
B) the school’s football field
C) the school’s drama room
D) the school’s front lawn
3. What does Jazz deduce about the killer after observing Irene’s murdered body in the shower?
A) the killer has a limp
B) the killer has acne
C) the killer is impotent
D) the killer is bald
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Why does Connie assure Jazz of in the Hideout in Chapter 28?
2. What surprising person does Jazz tell Connie and Howie he is going to visit and why?
3. What are the two tattoos on Billy Dent’s hands, and what do they signify?
Chapters 31-Epilogue
Reading Check
1. Where does Billy instruct Jazz to look for the Impressionist?
2. Why is the Impressionist unable to kill Brenda Quimby?
3. In Chapter 33, who is revealed to be the Impressionist?
4. What does the Impressionist use to knock Jazz unconscious?
Multiple Choice
1. The Impressionist tells Jazz that he is going to help him “accept his birthright,” that he is going to help him learn the ways of ______________ .
A) fire and brimstone
B) guts and gore
C) slashing and slicing
D) blood and bone
2. What is the first thing Billy does after escaping prison?
A) calls his mom, Gramma Dent
B) kills the social worker Melissa Hoover
C) eats a meal at Coff-E
D) buys a gun from Walmart
3. What does the Impressionist’s note say about Jazz?
A) Jazz is the key to Billy’s master plan.
B) The Impressionist is not to go near Jazz under any circumstance.
C) When Jazz turns 21, they should join forces
D) Jazz is planning to murder Connie.
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. What tattoo does Jazz get and where? What does the tattoo signify?
2. In what ways does the Epilogue suggest there will be a sequel to I Hunt Killers?
Quizzes – Answer Key
Chapters 1-6
Reading Check
1. a single severed finger (Chapter 1)
2. a Jeep (Chapter 2)
3. the arrest of Jazz’s father, Billy Dent (Chapter 2)
4. G. William won’t allow Jazz to help with the investigation of the murdered woman. (Chapter 2)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. Jazz’s recurring nightmare is a fragmented scene that involves a knife lying in the sink and Jazz cutting through something that “feels like chicken.” (Chapter 5)
2. The rule is that no harm should come to Jazz. (Chapter 6)
Chapters 7-14
Reading Check
1. “People matter […] People are real” (Chapter 7)
2. The Crucible (Chapter 7)
3. Melissa Hoover (Chapter 8)
4. a small toe ring (Chapter 9)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. Helen Myerson is the Impressionist’s victim in Chapter 13, and she is a waitress at the Coff-E Shop. (Chapter 13)
2. Melissa accuses Jazz of forging Gramma Dent’s signature on his social services paperwork because it is obvious to Melissa that Gramma Dent’s dementia is getting worse. (Chapter 14)
Chapters 15-21
Reading Check
1. smothering (Chapter 15)
2. in an abandoned barn (Chapter 16)
3. The killer is either Billy Dent or a copycat of Billy. (Chapter 17)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. Jazz breaks Doug’s cellphone because Doug takes a picture of Jazz as he’s being arrested in the parking lot outside of Ginny Davis’s apartment, and Jazz does not want those pictures being released to the public. (Chapter 21)
2. Jazz wants to give up the search because he was unable to help save Ginny Davis’ life, and he is feeling a combination of useless and hopeless. (Chapter 21)
Chapters 22-30
Reading Check
1. that he’s being watched (Chapter 22)
2. She needs to be in an assisted living facility. (Chapter 23)
3. Jazz will turn out just like his father. (Chapter 24)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. Connie assures Jazz that it is not his fault Ginny was murdered, and Jazz is not destined to become just like his father. (Chapter 28)
2. Jazz tells them he will go to see his father, Billy Dent. Jazz knows he will not get closure from this visit, but he hopes Billy can tell him something that will help him catch the killer. (Chapter 29)
3. On one hand the knuckles spell L-O-V-E and on the other they spell F-E-A-R. With a nod to the scales of justice, they signify that, for Billy, love and fear are related and opposing forces. (Chapter 30)
Chapters 31-Epilogue
Reading Check
1. Lobo’s Nod (Chapter 31)
2. police have surrounded her home (Chapter 32)
3. Jeff Fulton (Chapter 33)
4. a pistol (Chapter 34)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. Jazz gets a tattoo that says “I hunt killers” backwards, so it can only be read by Jazz when he looks in the mirror. It is meant to convince him every time he looks at himself that he is not a killer like his dad. (Chapter 38)
2. There is a shadowy figure observing Jazz as he performs in The Crucible. What’s more, Jazz recites lines from the play that foreshadow his feelings of guilt, which are still unresolved at the end of the book. (Epilogue)
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