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1. The book starts with a sentence over a page long, which recounts the history of what resident and her family?
2. Benton Lynch was named after his Uncle Benton. What one-word answer did Benton Lynch give when asked why he was named after Uncle Benton?
3. The second sentence in "Off for the Sweet Hereafter" tells us about Mrs. Askew's troubles with her front gutters. This rambling story introduces the man who was supposed to haul off Mrs. Askew's front gutters. He came from a family known for being meticilous and "excrutiating," and Mrs. Askew's gutterman is the most meticulous and excrutiating of his breed. He annoyed Mrs. Askew and played a pivotol role later in the story. Who was he?
4. Benton Lynch's rise out of obscurity began when he went to the store to buy a box of graham crackers for his momma. There he met Mr. C. E. Overhill of Altoona, Pennsylvania, who hired him to do what?
5. Benton Lynch got four new companions in the bed of Mr. Overhill's pickup truck. Which one later vowed to kill him?
6. We're only ever given a name for one of Benton Lynch's four new companions. Which one does Mr. Overhill refer to as "Dwight"?
7. Where was Benton Lynch when he first met Jane Elizabeth Firesheets?
8. One of the other crewmembers didn't take well to Benton Lynch's liasons with Jane Elizabeth Firesheets. How did Benton Lynch respond to this fellow's hot-tempered rantings?
9. What seems like a pointless, though amusing, anecdote in the beginning of the story turns out to be pivotal toward the end, because it introduces us to this man, who is able to give police a description of the man who had been committing a string of robberies. Who is this character, who first appeared when called upon to haul off Mrs. Askew's gutters?
10. What happened to Benton Lynch in the end?
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