The document contains questions about various chapters of a book involving a boy named Mark who witnessed a man commit suicide and is now in danger. Mark is being questioned by the FBI and a judge about where the body of a murdered senator is located. Reggie, Mark's lawyer, works to protect him and get him and his family into witness protection since Mark's testimony could implicate dangerous criminals who have threatened him.

1. The client
Questions on the text:
Chapter 1
1. Mark was like a father to Ricky. Give examples.
He was like a father to Ricky because he taught him how to throw a
football and ride a bike. He warned him against drugs and protected
him from older, more aggressive kids at school.
2. What did the fat, bald man do after he got out of the car?
The man was holding a hose. The boys watched as he put one end
of it into the tail pipe of the car and the other end into the left back
window, which was a little open. Then he got back into the car and
closed the door. He was trying to kill himself.
3. How did the man react when Mark tried to save his life?
He reacts violent. He said : you stupid kid! Did you think I wouldn’t
see you? You stupid, stupid kid! Then he pulled Mark into the car.
Chapter 2
1. What happened when Mark took the gun?
He was about to pull the trigger when the man grabbed the gun
from him and held it in front of Mark’s face.
2. Why did Clifford think Muldanno wanted to kill him?
Because he knows that Muldanno kills the senator from Louisiana
and he knows where was the body. It was under his garage.
3. Describe briefly what Romey did after he got out of the car
and began to cry.
He pulled himself onto the back of the car and sat down. Then very
carefully, he put the gun into his mouth. He closed his eyes and
pulled the trigger.

2. Chapter 3
1. What was Ricky’s reaction immediately after Clifford shot
himself?
He was in shock. He run towards the trailer park. Them he arrived
at his home, he lay down on the sofa in the living room an close his
eyes. He was trembling and making strange, loud noises.
2. Why did Mark call 911 to report the suicide?
Because he was scared and he thinks this was the correct thing to
do in that moment.
3. What two lies did Mark tell Hardy?
First, he tell Hardy that the find the body of the man.
Second, he lie about the name of the man. Mark said that his name
was Romey and the policeman don’t believe in Mark.
Chapter 4
1. Why was it a good thing that Muldanno’s trial might be
postponed?
Because the will have more time to find the body. They needed the
senator’s body to prove that Muldanno had kill him.
2. What did Foltrigg do to find out if Clifford had told anyone
about the location of the body?
He instructed Trumann to have the FBI investigate Clifford’s
movements in the days and hours before his suicide.
Chapter 5
1. Why was Mark worried on his way to the cafeteria?
Because he wanted that Ricky wake up, but he was afraid that Rcky
might tell the doctor the whole history.
2. How did Hardy help Trumann?
He take the cola can to compare the fingerprints in the car.
3. Why did Mark decide to keep the lawyer’s business card
that he found?
Because he thinks that the police will discovered the true and he will
need a lawyer to defend him.

3. Chapter 6
1. What did Foltrigg hope to find out from talking to Mark?
He hope that Mark will tell they were the body was and all the
problems will be solved.
2. How did Mark react when he discovered that an FBI agent
wanted to talk to him?
He said: I don’t want to talk to him! I don’t want to keep talking
about what happened.
Chapter 7
1. What was unusual about Reggie’s office and why was this
so?
It was unusual that she have a lot of toys and books in her office.
She have all this to the children that she defend.
2. Why Reggie was frightened and what advice did she give
Mark?
Because she don’t want to know where the body was, she advise
him to don’t tell anyone were the body was.
Chapter 8
1. Why did Reggie provide Mark with a tape recorder?
Because she wants to know if Trumann lie and he obey the law.
2. What did Trumann lie to Reggie about?
He lie to Reggie that Mark don’t need a lawyer, he advised Mark to
avoid the lawyers, asking Mark without his mother…
Chapter 9
1. Why were the FBI convinced that Mark had been in the car
with Clifford?
Because inside and outside the Clifford’s car were a lot of little
fingerprints.

4. 2. Why did Trumann like the idea of putting Mark and his
family in the Federal Witness Protection Programme?
Because if the protect Mark and he’s family they will be sure that
Muldanno don’t hurt they and the FBI can ask Mark about the
murder.
Chapter 10
1. What happened in the elevator?
A man called Gronke was send by Muldanno to threat Mark because
he want that the body didn’t say anything about the murder.
2. Why did Reggie think Mark should tell the truth?
Because if he don’t tell the truth he will be accused by attempt of
court.
3. Why were Foltrigg, Trumann and Fink worried that Gronke
hadn’t been found?
Because if they didn’t find him he can hurt mark and his family and
they could know the truth.
Chapter 11
1. How did Boyette try to get support against the waste
dump?
He try opposing the Mafia’s plan to build a toxic waste dump near
New Orleans.
2. Why did Reggie doubt Muldanno’s innocence?
Because if Muldanno is innocent why he send Gronke to threat
Mark with a knife in the elevator?

5. Chapter 12
1. Why had Dianne been crying before Mark returned to the
room?
Because she had lost, her job and now she don’t have anything.
2. What was Ricky’s reaction when he was asked about the
car?
He started to cry and the he fell asleep again.
3. What did Gronke do at the Sway’s trailer home and what
was the result of this?
He put a box in front of the door of the trailer, went back to his car
and drove away. Thirty minutes later the box exploded, by the time
he called 911 the fire had destroyed the Sway’s home.
Chapter 13
1. What did Trumann and Foltrigg want the judge to do, and
what might be a result of this?
They want that the judge ask Mark the questions they were trying
to ask him. Then the judge did it.
2. What information did the crime reporter learn from
Mark?
Mark tell to the reporter that they were taking him to the Juvenile
Detention Centre and he have to go to the court.
Chapter 14
1. Why was Reggie pleased to hear that Judge Roosevelt
signed the order?
Because she wants to know, that Mark and his family will be safe.
2. What will happen to Mark if he refuses to answer the
judge’s questions?

6. If he refuses the questions, he will be accused by attempt of court
and he will go to the detention centre.
Chapter 15
1. What things did the judge tell Reggie that surprised her?
The judge asked her if Mark knows something about Senator’s
murder and by her face he tell that he was right.
2. What reason did Mark give the judge for refusing to
answer his questions?
He tell the judge that he can’t answer because he’s afraid someone
might hurt him and his family.
3. List all the things the Sway family would get in the
Witness Protection Programme.
They will give them new names with new birth certificates, credit
cards, driver’s licence and bank account. They will get them a house,
put the boys in a good school and provide money until Dianne find a
good job.
Chapter 16
1. What did Mark want Doreen to think and why?
He wants that Doreen thinks that he is very sick to scape and look
for Senator’s Boyette’s body.
2. What objections did Dianne have about Federal Witness
Protection Programme?
She don’t have any job, no home and two boys with serious
problems. She began to think more about the Programme
3. What did the FBI agents want Sam Dole to do and why?
They want that Sam to put the Salt Shaker in the table were
Muldanno and Gronke was.

7. Chapter 17
1. What shocking news did Reggie tell Dianne and Mark and
how did she reassure them?
She tell they that Muldanno wants to kill her and he send someone
to do it.
2. What was the judge’s reaction when Mark refused to
answer the question about the body?
Mark is in contempt of court again and he stay in detention centre
all the weekend.
Chapter 18
1. Why did Reggie decide to use Clint’s car?
2. What would it mean if Romey hadn’t told Mark the truth
about the location of the body?
Chapter 19
1. What did Trumann do after talking with Dianne?
2. What worried Muldanno when he discovered that Mark
has disappeared and what did he do about it?
Chapter 20
1. Once they had light, what did Gronke and Pirini do in the
garage?
2. List the main events that happened after the rock broke
the window?
3. What exactly did Mark and Reggie discover in the garage?
Chapter 21
1. Why did Mark begin to cry and how did Reggie react?
2. What conditions did Reggie insist on before telling
Trumann where the body was?

8. 3. In your opinion, how did Mark and Reggie feel at the end
and why do you think this?