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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Cindy follow Lindsay the first time they meet?
(a) Into the hotel kitchen.
(b) Into the ladies' room.
(c) Into the hotel basement.
(d) Into her police car.

2. What was the catalyst for Lindsay's depression?
(a) The death of her young son.
(b) The divorce she is thinking of going through.
(c) The divorce of her parents.
(d) The bride and groom case.

3. Who is Gerald Brandt?
(a) The bride's father.
(b) The groom's son.
(c) The groom's father.
(d) The bride's brother.

4. Where does the family of Karen Voskuhl live?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Alaska.
(c) San Diego.
(d) Cleveland.

5. Who does the driver of the limo claimed hired him?
(a) Their hotel.
(b) The mayor.
(c) A stranger.
(d) Their parents.

6. Who does Phillip Campbell meet in the airport?
(a) His long-lost cousin.
(b) Lindsay.
(c) A young woman about to get married.
(d) Cindy.

7. What might have captured an image of the Voskuhls killer?
(a) A camera at a traffic light that catches red-light runners.
(b) Someone's cell phone.
(c) A video camera.
(d) The wedding photographer.

8. Where is James when he is killed?
(a) In his bed.
(b) On the toilet.
(c) In his shower.
(d) Washing his hands.

9. Why does James sneak away to go to the bathroom?
(a) To use the restroom.
(b) To try to sneak out the window.
(c) To smoke marijuana.
(d) To collect his thoughts.

10. What does Lindsay have a bad dream about one night?
(a) Being buried alive.
(b) The killer.
(c) Getting shot.
(d) Never getting married.

11. How did the killer leave the tuxedo jacket next to David Brendt's body?
(a) Folded up.
(b) This is a trick question; there was no jacket at the murder scene.
(c) Draped over David's face.
(d) In a heap.

12. What is Cindy's original beat when she gets called to the Brandt murder scene?
(a) The politics beat.
(b) The restaurant scene.
(c) The education beat.
(d) The metro desk.

13. What does Lindsay learn from CSU about fingerprints at the Brandt murder scene?
(a) That there were no prints of any use.
(b) That they found one set of usable prints.
(c) That the only prints at the scene were Lindsay's.
(d) That they found two sets of usable prints.

14. When the novel opens, who does Lindsay consider the most important person in her life?
(a) Her friend, Claire.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her priest, whom she also knew as a child.

15. Why does Cindy get to go to the Brandt murder scene?
(a) It happens at night and no one else is in the office.
(b) She requested it.
(c) The two crime reporters are already busy.
(d) She knows someone at the hotel who called her directly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Claire report she has a sample of from the crime scene?

2. Who helps Becky while she is shopping at Saks Fifth Avenue?

3. What does Lindsay promise to Melanie Brandt?

4. What does Lindsay's doctor show her a slide of during her first appointment in the novel?

5. What is the name of the hotel room the first murdered couple is found in?

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