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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the newspapers suggest about Scarpetta and Susan in the days after Susan's death?
(a) They hated each other.
(b) They were very competitive with each other.
(c) Scarpetta was paying Susan off for something.
(d) They were lovers.

2. What information is Mrs. Clary able to give Scarpetta about Jennifer's death?
(a) An accurate time.
(b) A means.
(c) A motive.
(d) A letter.

3. Who does Scarpetta instruct to take Waddell's fingerprints?
(a) No one.
(b) Susan.
(c) Benton.
(d) Pete.

4. How is Susan Stone killed?
(a) She is drowned.
(b) She is shot.
(c) She is poisoned.
(d) She is strangled.

5. When the novel first opens, who is Scarpetta waiting for in the morgue?
(a) Her assistant, Susan.
(b) Ronnie Joe Waddell.
(c) Pete Marino.
(d) Television reporters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucy question Scarpetta about on the phone that makes her uncomfortable?

2. What does Scarpetta find in Susan's office after her death?

3. What do Scarpetta and Lucy decorate?

4. Why was Susan in such need of money before her death?

5. Whose name does Scarpetta willingly remove as a witness to Eddie Heath's autopsy?

(see the answer key)

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