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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Knapp respond when Jordan walks in during Gaines's interview with Lenz and Kaiser?

2. Jordan and Kaiser discover the killings first started happening in ____________.

3. How does Gaines react when Jordan enters during his interview with Kaiser and Lenz?

4. Where does Jordan encourage Kaiser to rest once she takes him home?

5. What does Jordan think about Laveau's involvement in the serial killings after speaking to her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Juan confess to the investigators about Smith and Wheaton?

2. How does Wheaton kidnap Jordan?

3. What does Kaiser confess about his failed marriage when he is in Jordan's hotel room?

4. What kind of relationship did Wheaton have with his mother?

5. What happens with Gaines's girlfriend as Lenz and Kaiser are questioning Gaines for the first time?

6. What does Wheaton tell Jordan about her sister?

7. What do Kaiser and Lenz threaten to do to Gaines in order to make him talk to them when they first approach him as a suspect?

8. What photo does Kaiser find in the gunman's apartment?

9. What is surprising to Jordan about Kaiser's house?

10. Why does Kaiser wait outside Laveau's house for Jordan to finish questioning her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the novel's tone and discuss three literary devices that Iles uses to create this tone.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss at least three ways the novel would change if it were written from the perspective of John Kaiser or Dr. Lenz and at least three literary devices Iles could use while writing from these different perspectives.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the relationship between Jordan and Jill. Using direct evidence from the text, make sure to address the following: 1) what their relationship has been like historically, 2) what their relationship is like by the time the novel concludes, and 3) what the reader learns about these two characters through their interactions with each other.

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