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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. Who is the first person interviewed in Chapter 4?

2. What is the name of the detective's aide?

3. What is the name of the medical examiner who works on the case alongside Eve?

4. Where does the story take place?

5. What is the name of the doctor who helps Eve at the scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the play take place? How is Dallas connected to the theater?

2. Where does the couple go after dinner? Why does Roarke accompany Eve on police business?

3. What event is Dallas at during the murder and what is her take on the event?

4. What is Eve's advice to Nadine? Will Nadine comply?

5. What is the murder weapon and where is it found?

6. What is the general opinion of Draco?

7. Why is Nadine worried about this matter? How could it affect Nadine's career and personal relationship with Eve?

8. Who calls Eve at Central asking for a meeting? What is the person's connection to the cop?

9. Who greets Eve when she arrives home? What is the relationship between this person and Eve?

10. Discuss the meeting between Quim and Draco's killer. What is the end result?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a short memoir that might have been written by Richard Draco. What types of things would Draco be most proud of in his career? What other types of professional work might Draco have done other than stage work? Would the memoir include details of his relationships with Areena, Carly, Nadine and others? What would Draco say? Would Draco have any idea that he might be murdered for his actions?

Essay Topic 2

Areena Mansfield drugged Linus Quim. After Quim was docile, Areena forced him to write a note of confession and then hang himself. Examine Areena's plan. Would the plan actually work? What drug was used to incapacitate Quim? Does the drug really exist? What is its medicinal purpose? What was it used for in the story? Are the effects of the drug accurate as portrayed in the story? Can the drug kill someone? How does it override a person's sense of survival? How else might Areena have killed Quim while making it look like a suicide?

Essay Topic 3

Dallas had frequent and violent nightmares about her father, being abused, and the hotel room in Dallas. Write an essay explaining Dallas' violent and traumatic childhood. What happened to Dallas' parents? Why was she so badly abused? Who ended up raising Dallas? What is the girl's real name? How did the experience change Eve? How did the circumstances affect her in the Draco-Quim case? Do you think Dallas was able to overcome her childhood traumas? Explain. How could she stop the nightmares?

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