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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the build of Cross' partner?
(a) He is a squat man with a large forehead.
(b) He is mammoth, very tall and broad.
(c) He is medium build with long legs.
(d) He is a shorter man with a Napoleon complex.

2. Who is Lucy Rhys-Cousins' suspected killer?
(a) Geoffrey Shafer, known as the Weasel.
(b) Lucy Rhys-Cousins' crazy uncle from Holland.
(c) Agent Kyle Craig.
(d) The Mastermind.

3. What does Jannie eat in the hospital?
(a) Big Mike Giordano's pizza.
(b) Hospital food only.
(c) Breyers Ice Cream.
(d) Chinese food.

4. How does the person who plans the Citibank robbery describe the precision necessary to pull off the heist?
(a) As a letter grade-point average of 3.999 out of 4.
(b) As a percentage of 99.999 out of 100.
(c) On a curve with an average of the power of world leaders.
(d) On a numerical scale of 9.9999 out of 10.

5. Who is held up in the robbery and has a message for Cross and Cavalierre?
(a) The bank manager.
(b) The security guard.
(c) John Dixon.
(d) An early customer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who mostly sends hate mail to banks?

2. What was supposed to have happened to the hostages in the Citibank robbery?

3. Who is the RN Cross talks to about Jannie's condition at the hospital?

4. What is the name of the character who robs Citibank?

5. What does the Mastermind do with the letter he writes to Citibank?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did it look to Cross and Sampson that the Mastermind killed the Parkers? Why kill them that way?

2. Does the villain think that calling himself the Mastermind makes him seem powerful? Why does he pick the name?

3. What are Damon and Jannie doing when Jannie falls down? Did he mean to hurt Jannie?

4. Why do you think Sampson and Cross address the drug dealer, Snowman, as Darryl?

5. Are the Mastermind's motives easy to distinguish? What does he do that is different from most professional robbers?

6. With which drug does the Mastermind kill the second team of bank robbers? How does the drug work?

7. Describe how Cross feels about Christine. Why does Christine act distantly toward Cross?

8. Where does Joseph Petrillo live? What is the neighborhood like? What happens when Cross and Cavalierre reach his house?

9. How does Christine react to hearing the news of the murdered mother in a London supermarket? Why is her suspicion about who committed the crime particularly odd?

10. Does Kyle Craig like parties? How does the author indicate this?

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