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In Cold Blood Quotes Test

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Select the correct missing word from the following quote: -

"... At the time not a soul in sleeping Holcomb heard them ... four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended _______ human lives."

a)

four

b)

five

c)

six

d)

two

2.

Select the correct word to complete the following quote :-

",,, Mr Clutter seldom encountered trespassers on his property; a mile and a half from the highway, and arrived at by obscure roads, it was not a place that __________ came upon by chance."

a)

visitors

b)

neighbours

c)

strangers

d)

travellers

3.

Select the correct word to complete the following quote :-

"...Dick was driving a black 1949 Chevrolet sedan... Perry checked the back seat to see if his _______ was safely there..."

a)

guitar

b)

gun

c)

box

d)

knife

4.

Select the correct words to complete the following quote :-

"... Perry, too, had been maimed...in a motor-cycle wreck... his chunky, dwarfish legs, broken in ____ places and pitifully scarred...he had become an _________ addict..."

a)

two, ice

b)

five. morphine

c)

three, codeine

d)

five, aspirin

5.

Select the correct words to complete the following quote that describes some of Dick's tattoos:-

"... the face of a _____; ...the head of a _________; ...bosomy nudes; ... and the word _______..."

a)

dog, human, love

b)

cat, dragon, peace

c)

mother, saint, die

d)

tiger, child, life

6.

Select the correct word to complete the following quote :-

"... We walked in and I saw right away that the Clutters hadn't eaten breakfast... Then I noticed something funny: __________ ________. It was lying on the floor, sort of open..."

a)

Nancy's book

b)

Nancy's handbag

c)

Nancy's diary

d)

Nancy's purse

7.

Who wrote the following quote? :

"... After a bit, the house began to fill up ... Ambulances arrived, and the coroner, and the Methodist minister, a police photographer, state troopers, fellows from the radio and the newspaper. Oh a bunch... it was like nobody could believe it...

a)

Larry Hendricks

b)

Susan Kidwell

c)

Mrs Kidwell

d)

Alvin Dewey

8.

Write the correct word to complete the following quote :-

"... How was it possible that such effort, such plain (a)   , could overnight be reduced to this - smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky?"

9.

Write the correct word to complete the following quote by Dewey about Dick :-

"... [ A ] small-time chiseller who got out of his depth, empty and (a)   "

10.

Write the two correct words to complete the following quote: -

"... I believe in hanging. Just so long as I'm not the one being hanged... But then__________ ________.

(a)