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Study Guide Questions

1. In the prologue, what was Daniel doing?

2. What was Rochelle doing?

3. How long had it been since Rhonda Ghent last saw Tim MacCulfsky?

4. Who was bailing Rochelle out of her financial difficulties?

5. What would Rochelle eventually need to do?

6. What is the name of the small Midwest town where Rhonda lives?

7. What was Rhonda wearing when Tim drove up?

8. Did Rhonda's father sign Tim's contract?

9. How was Rhonda planning to earn the money to pay Tim?

10. Whose room was Tim staying in?

11. What did Tim manage to keep Rhonda from seeing at the bottom of his suitcase?

12. What did Raphael have that was intended to help his family control him?

13. What color eyes does Raphael have?

14. What is the name of Rhonda's and Raphael's nephew?

15. What hours does Mr. Ghent work?

16. Who answered the door during dinner that first day of Tim's visit?

17. Who was at the door?

18. Who ended up feeding Andy his dinner?

19. Did Mrs. Ghent get a chance to eat? Why or why not?

20. What did Tim do before he decided to take the case?

21. What kind of cases does Tim normally handle?

22. How long ago did Rochelle begin her cyber affair?

23. How did it begin?

24. What did Tim call it?

25. Why did Rochelle think it was harmless?

26. Did Daniel know about Rochelle's cyber affair?

27. Why did Rochelle continue the cyber affair?

28. How did Rochelle's cyber partner say he found out about Daniel's accident?

29. What was Tim's advice to Rochelle after he finished interviewing her?

30. Where did Mrs. Ghent ask Tim to drive Raphael?

31. What car was Tim driving?

32. What was Raphael doing in Tim's car that made Rhonda tell him to quit and Tim to stop?

33. Where did Tim and Rhonda drive after dropping off Raphael at his friend's?

34. What did Rhonda answer when Tim asked her about the accident report? 

35. What did Rochelle have that would help Tim to prove if the accident was foul play?

36. Why did she keep it?

37. Where does Rochelle live?

38. How long had Rhonda and Matt been going steady?

39. What was the reason Rhonda had told everyone for Tim's visit?

40. What activity does the Ghent family do every Saturday morning? Why?

41. Who works at the roller rink?

42. Who did Tim finally meet before retiring to bed on his first night at the Ghent's home?

43. What did Tim discover when he went to bed?

44. What did Tim do to get back at Raphael?

45. What did the Ghent's argue about later in the driveway?

46. Who ended up riding with Tim in his car?

47. What happened to Tim at the roller rink? 

48. What did Rhonda do when they arrived back home?

49. Who gave the car with the faulty brake line to Rochelle's husband?

50. What was Rochelle afraid of at night?

51. What did Tim see coming from Mr. Ghent's office when he returned home Saturday night?

52. What was the reason Rhonda told Tim that Mr. Ghent wasn't acting like himself?

53. What was the name of Mr. Ghent's former boss?

54. What did Rhonda offer to Tim to break the boredom?

55. What happened to Tim's car while they were in church?

56. What happened at the emergency meeting of the elder board Mr. Ghent attended?

57. What did Tim do?

58. Where did Tim and Raphael find Mr. Ghent, and what was he doing?

59. What did Rhonda want to talk to Tim about in her room?

60. What did Tim say sending an e-mail was like?

61. Was Tim able to locate Rochelle's cyber friend with the computer program he installed on her computer?

62. What did Rochelle offer Tim so he wouldn't have to sit in his car during the night?

63. Whom did Tim visit early on Monday morning?

64. What did Tim discuss with Keith Nicholson?

65. What did Raphael do every morning?

66. What was Raphael's code name?

67. Who put Andy to sleep on Monday night?

68. What was the good news that Rochelle told Moonglow?

69. What was Tim's new idea for finding out who Moonglow was?

70. What was Moonglow's reaction to Rochelle's request to meet?

71. After trying unsuccessfully to fall asleep, what did Tim do at 2:00?

72. Whom did Tim have to take into his confidence?

73. When and where did Moonglow want to meet Rochelle?

74. What did Tim find in the middle of his bed Wednesday morning?

75. Who called Tim on his cell phone Wednesday morning, and why?

76. What did Tim discover while he waited for his laundry to finish drying?

77. What was unusual about the residue?

78. What did the residue prove when he collected more from the car in Rochelle's garage?

79. What was Tim's favorite meal that Rhonda was preparing, and what happened to it?

80. What did Rhonda want Tim to do Wednesday night when she called him at Rochelle's house?

81. What information did Rhonda let slip out to the youth pastor that resulted in asking Tim to speak to the youth group on career night?

82. What did Tim owe Rochelle that he finally did on Thursday?

83. What happened that cut short Tim's question and answer session after his talk to the youth group?

84. Why couldn't Tim drive his station wagon to Rochelle's house?

85. What kind of "wheels" did Raphael get for Tim to use?

86. What did Tim find while helping to clean up the mess from the break-in?

87. Where did Rochelle stop on the way to take Tim to his car at church, and why?

88. What was Rochelle's good news that she was dying to tell someone?

89. What had happened to Tim's car when he got to the church parking lot? 

90. What kind of mood was Rhonda in when she came home from school Friday, and why?

91. What did Tim talk Rhonda into doing instead of returning her prom dress for a refund?

92. What desperate measure had Tim resorted to in order to ensure Rochelle's safety at the game?

93. What did the door watchers and Tim use to communicate?

94. Who did Rochelle meet at the Friday night game where she was supposed to meet Moonglow? And what did they do?

95. What did Tim and his team of bodyguards do?

96. What did they all do when they arrived?

97. Did Tim believe Eric Weissman was responsible for Daniel's death?

98. What did Eric make plans to do with Rochelle the next day?

99. Who else spent the night at the Ghent's Friday night?

100. Did the Ghents spend their Saturday in the usual manner?

101. Who was at the door when Tim and Rhonda came down, and why?

102. What did Tim trust Raphael to do while he was busy?

103. What did Rhonda suggest they do at lunchtime after shopping for Tim's tuxedo?

104. Who helped Rhonda get ready for the prom when she returned home?

105. What did Rochelle do to help Tim with his problem?

106. Who came to the rescue when Tim needed a corsage for Rhonda at the last minute?

107. What was Mrs. Ghent doing when Rhonda came downstairs and Tim pinned on her corsage.

108. What were the names of the couple who sat at the table with Tim before Rhonda joined him?

109. What happened after the prom dinner while Tim and Rhonda were dancing to slow music?

110. What was the name of the place where the "after" prom tradition takes place?

111. What did Tim discover was used to seal the cut brake lines on Daniel's car?

112. What did Tim do about his discovery?

113. Who else showed up while Tim and Rhonda were dancing together, and why?

114. Why didn't Raphael call the police?

115. Who waited outside the G.I.F.O. building for the police?

116. Who was supposed to be the one killed in the car accident?

117. Who followed Bernie Bendlowe's instructions to set up the accident and arrange everything else?

118. Who knocked the gun out of Matt's hand?

119. What did Bendlowe run out of the door clutching?

120. What happened to Bernie Bendlowe?

121. When did Tim finally get around to visiting his birth family in Chicago? And who did he take with him?

122. What task did Tim need Rochelle's help with after he returned home Sunday night?

123. What did Rhonda do while Tim was gone?

124. Where did Tim find Rhonda, and what did he do?

125. What was her answer?

126. What were Rochelle and Eric celebrating?

127. What were Mr. and Mrs. Ghent celebrating?

Answers

1. Daniel was driving to his third shift job.
2. Rochelle was chatting on the Internet, having a cyber affair.
3. It had been three years.
4. Rhonda was bailing Rochelle out of her financial difficulties.
5. Rochelle would eventually need to get a job and pay a babysitter to raise Andy.
6. Rockville is the name of the small Midwest town where Rhonda lives. 
7. Rhonda was wearing a football letter jacket that was much too big for her.
8. No, Rochelle and Rhonda decided not to involve him in it.
9. Rhonda was being paid to cater the prom and arrange the entertainment. 
10. Tim was staying in Raphael's room.
11. He kept her from seeing his holstered Beretta and several loaded clips.
12. He had a cell phone.
13. His eyes are blue like Rhonda's.
14. His name is Andy.
15. Mr. Ghent works second shift.
16. Raphael answered the door.
17. Rhonda's boyfriend, Matt Girsham, was at the door.
18. Tim ended up feeding Andy to give Rochelle a chance to eat.
19. No, because she promised to take Raphael to the mall to buy new jeans.
20. He interviewed Rochelle (He talked with the girls).
21. Tim normally handles only missing persons and adoptee searches. 
22. She began about six months ago.
23. She couldn't sleep one night and decided to try a chat room, which her friend told her was fun.
24. He called it the one-on-nothing phenomenon.
25. She thought it was harmless, because they didn't know each other, they weren't sharing their real names and addresses, and they didn't even know each other's voice or what they looked like.
26. No, they were very careful to make sure it didn't interfere with their normal lives.
27. It all seemed so innocent and, at the same time, it added an element of mystery and romance to her previously dull existence.
28. He read about Daniel's accident in the newspaper.
29. He wanted her to go home and start living a normal life, for Andy's sake. Go to bed and sleep. Then tomorrow start a list of everything she knows about the guy--anything that might be a clue to his identity--places he goes, things he does, hobbies, interests, etc.
30. She asked Tim to drive Raphael to his friend's house.
31. He was driving his blue station wagon.
32. He was smoking.
33. They drove to Rochelle's house.
34. The brakes didn't work and there was "inconclusive evidence to suspect or prove anything other than it was an accident."
35. She still had the car.
36. She kept it because she didn't have closure.
37. Rochelle lives at Forest Hills Trailer Park in the far back corner.
38. Rhonda and Matt have been going steady for a couple of years.
39. She told everyone he was visiting her for old time's sake.
40. They go roller skating, because the family counselor told them to decide on an activity the whole family could do together.
41. Rhonda's steady boyfriend, Matt, works at the roller rink.
42. Tim finally met Mr. Ghent.
43. He looked down and saw phosphorescent green goop dripping from his hands and running down his legs.
44. He used the phosphorescent green goop to paste together the pages of Raphael's "girlie" magazines, which he kept hidden between the mattress and the box springs on his bed.
45. They argued about seating arrangements in the car to drive to the roller rink.
46. Rhonda, Rochelle and Andy rode with Tim in his car. 
47. He tripped over a young boy and caused a body pileup.
48. She positioned an ice pack on his collarbone where the pain from his old wound was throbbing and then removed his shirt.
49. Mr. Ghent gave Daniel the car.
50. She was afraid of prowlers at night, and also worried that her cyber partner might've killed her husband. 
51. A dim glow from the computer monitor in front of which Mr. Ghent was sitting.
52. Mr. Ghent blamed himself for Daniel's accident, because he was the one who gave him the car; and soon after his boss "let him go" rather than press charges for mismanagement of the company's finances.
53. His name was Bernie Bendlowe.
54. She offered him homemade chewing gum.
55. The horn shorted out, and Keith Nicholson had to disconnect it.
56. Mr. Ghent was "set down" from the elder board at church pending an investigation into his work ethics at G.I.F.O.
57. Tim volunteered to look for Mr. Ghent with Raphael's help.
58. They found him breaking into his former place of employment, the G.I.F.O. building.
59. She wanted to talk about the fact that Matt gave her a promise ring and was working to straighten out his life for her.
60. It was like sending a letter without an envelope.
61. No, he wasn't.
62. She offered him the couch to sleep on.
63. He visited Keith Nicholson, the mechanic, to have the horn on his car fixed.
64. They discussed tampering with brake lines.
65. He engineered a prank against Tim every morning.
66. His codename is "knowitall."
67. Tim put Andy asleep when he arrived early.
68. Her good news was that she had answered a classified ad in the newspaper and had a job interview on Wednesday.
69. His new idea was to arrange a meeting between Moonglow and Starshine.
70. He wanted to think about it until tomorrow.
71. He left and discovered Mr. Ghent spying on his former boss at G.I.F.O. When he got back to the Ghent's home, he carried Rhonda to her bed and watched her sleep.
72. He had to take Raphael into his confidence.
73. Moonglow wanted to meet at the Rockville Rockets Friday night home basketball game.
74. He found a tiny dictation tape recorder/player with a message from Raphael.
75. Rochelle called, because she thought her job interview had gone badly, it lasted only a few minutes.
76. He noticed a crumbly dark residue collected in the bottom crease of the plastic bag containing the section of broken brake line he had removed from Rochelle's husband's car.
77. When he compared it to the dirt outside, it wasn't the same.
78. It proved the brakes had been tampered with.
79. She was preparing fried chicken, potatoes and cornbread; and it burned during the police questioning.
80. She wanted him to go to the police station where Mr. Ghent was being questioned.
81. She let it slip out that he was a private investigator.
82. He owed her a lunch date.
83. Rochelle called to let him know that her house had been broken into.
84. The tires had been slashed.
85. He got BMX bikes.
86. He found a folded piece of paper with handwritten communications between Rhonda and Matt passed back and forth during a class at school. And on it Matt had written the same slogan in the same way that it was spray painted at all the break-in sites around town.
87. She stopped at the Cherry Tree Day Care Center to see if they had filled the job opening.
88. She not only got the job at the day care center, she announced that she was pregnant. 
89. Bernie Bendlowe had the secretary report it to the police as an abandoned car, and it was towed away and impounded at the police station.
90. She was furious because Matt had been arrested for master-minding the local break-ins. And since it was the day before the prom, she didn't have a date to take her to the prom she had worked so hard to organize and to plan. 
91. He asked her to go to the prom with him and she accepted.
92. He was trusting Raphael and three of his friends to be undercover bodyguards.
93. They used walkie-talkies set on the same frequency.
94. She met an old school chum named Eric. And they talked and then disappeared together.
95. They gave chase and followed Eric's truck to his mansion.
96. Eric invited them all into his house to relax and talk, and he told them his story.
97. No, he didn't. But someone had tampered with the brakes.
98. He planned to help her buy a new computer.
99. Andy spent the night, because Rochelle wasn't feeling well. Rhonda told her Tim would bring him home tomorrow.
100. No. Rhonda had things yet to do to get ready for the prom, and Mrs. Ghent wanted to visit Rochelle and see if she needed help with anything.
101. Bernie Bendlowe was at the door. He wanted the ring from Rhonda and he had a note from Matt.
102. When Tim found out that Raphael had a microscope and a chemistry set, he trusted him to make comparison studies to discover what the residue from the car's brake line was.
103. She suggested meeting Rochelle for lunch.
104. Rochelle was there.
105. She advised him not to eat anything salty, and no seafood. Then she made him a diuretic sandwich of parsley flakes.
106. Rochelle called Eric, because his uncle owns a floral shop, and Eric delivered it himself.
107. She was busy taking pictures with her camera.
108. Rhonda's best friend, Jenny, and her date, Eric.
109. Matt showed up and started a fight with Tim.
110. It was called Star Lake.
111. Rhonda's homemade chewing gum was used to seal the brake lines after they were cut. Then it eventually crumbled away after freezing. 
112. He didn't do a thing. He was determined not to let anything else spoil their evening together.
113. Raphael showed up, because he had overheard a telephone conversation between his father and Matt Girsham arranging a meeting at the G.I.F.O. building where Matt would reveal who killed Daniel Canfield.
114. The battery in his cell phone was dead.
115. Rhonda waited.
116. Mr. Ghent was supposed to be the one killed. Bernie Bendlowe hadn't counted on Mr. Ghent giving the car to his son-in-law.
117. Matt Girsham.
118. Raphael burst into the room and threw himself at Matt.
119. Instead of fighting Tim for the gun, Bendlowe turned and ran out the door clutching Mr. Ghent's briefcase.
120. When Bernie Bendlowe ran, he made it to his Lincoln, tossed the briefcase in the backseat, got in and started the engine. He threw it in reverse, backed up and peeled rubber when he drove out of the parking lot. The stoplight at the corner was green for oncoming traffic, but he didn't bother to look. He didn't see the semi-truck barreling down on him at full-speed. 
121. He visited them Sunday and took along Rhonda and Raphael.
122. He needed her help to buy a ring for Rhonda.
123. She found out that he and Rochelle had gone somewhere, so she drove away in her mom's car.
124. He found her at Star Lake, and he proposed to her when he gave her the ring.
125. She said yes.
126. They were celebrating closure. Rochelle had visited Daniel's grave for the first time since the funeral. 
127. They were celebrating Mr. Ghent's new job as chief financial auditor for the biggest law firm in the state. 

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