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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 cases does Harry decide to focus on first?
(a) The ones with multiple victims.
(b) The most recent.
(c) The ones involving important people, like the murdered priest.
(d) The ones where children were harmed.

2. Teresa also finds fruit fly larvae in Juan Doe's stomach. What does she conclude about their presence?
(a) That Juan Doe was a fly breeder and likely had been living in Mexico.
(b) That Juan Does was a part of a bug-eating cult.
(c) That Juan Doe was a homeless person.
(d) That Juan Doe was a fly breeder and likely had been living in Hawaii.

3. In Chapter 11, why does Harry decide he needs to talk to Porter next?
(a) His retirement indicated that he was corrupt.
(b) Porter called Harry and told him he knew what was up.
(c) Harry has a hunch.
(d) His pullout from the department is too coincidental.

4. As Harry begins to review all of Porter's case, what does he decide to do?
(a) Take a dinner break and come back to the cases later.
(b) Quit his job.
(c) Get Porter to come back to work and solve his own cases.
(d) Separate out the cases he thinks he can solve quickly from those that will take time.

5. What does Harry realize about Rickard as they process the arrest of the young drug dealer?
(a) That he enjoys intimidating the people he arrests.
(b) That he is sensitive to the needs of teens.
(c) That he does not like Harry.
(d) That he does not believe in drug laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Porter live?

2. Who does Harry call before leaving for Mexico in Chapter 16?

3. Why is Harry more worried about spending New Year's Eve alone than Christmas?

4. Harry is asked to meet with his Lieutenant in his office. What is the nickname for his office?

5. Harry is asked to take over Lucius Porter's cases. Why is Porter not able to solve his own cases?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Harry think that solving homicide cases are the only cases that matter?

2. In Chapters 9 and 10, what is bothering Teresa?

3. What was unusual about the fruit flies found in the autopsy, according to Teresa Corazon?

4. Describe the previous interactions between Cal Moore and Harry Bosch and the extent to which they knew each other before Moore's suicide.

5. Why does Bosch act so upset in the first chapter?

6. Why does Harry begin to dislike Rickard after they bust the teenager for possession?

7. What is the real reason why Harry Bosch finds Hollywood depressing?

8. What is the evidence that Teresa uncovered having to do with brain tissue and what does it mean?

9. What does Harry learn in Chapter 12 about why Porter did not come clean with what he knew about Juan Doe?

10. Why do the police believe Moore killed himself?

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