You are responsible for answering the questions and addressing the statements which follow. Your study guide questions will be collected after you complete the novel.
1. Identify the following characters:
Willie Jay
Reverend James Post
Don Jarchow
Vere English
Nancy Ewalt
Sadie Truitt
Myrtle Clare
Larry Rupp
Andy Erhart
2. What does Perry mean when he states, “Maybe it’s just as well. Nuns are a bad-luck bunch.”
3. Summarize Bobby Rupp’s explanation of what occurred in his last evening with Nancy.
4. Who first discovered the murdered family?
5. Provide two theories that the people of Holcomb considered for who might have killed the Clutter family.
6. Who was the principal suspect (page 72)?
