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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. Where does the novel's first murder scene take place?
(a) The St. Francis.
(b) The Grand Hyatt.
(c) The Westin.
(d) The Ritz Carlton.

2. What do Lindsay and Raleigh do for the first time while out of town investigating the Voskuhl murders?
(a) Get in a fight.
(b) Kiss.
(c) Go for a long run.
(d) Go for a bike ride.

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

4. What does Lindsay do in a weak moment of frustration with the case and with her illness?
(a) Goes out and gets drunk.
(b) Yells at people in her office.
(c) Cries.
(d) Runs a red light out of anger -- and gets in an accident.

5. Where does Phillip Campbell stay for his out-of-town wedding?
(a) A hotel.
(b) His car.
(c) A houseboat.
(d) A friend's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of pet does Lindsay have?

2. Why does Lindsay return to the Brandt hotel murder scene after everyone else has left?

3. How does Lindsay's boss feel about the press coverage of the bridge and groom case?

4. Where do Lindsay and Raleigh first go to discuss the wedding guest list?

5. Who arrives to comfort Lindsay after her bad dream?

Short Essay Questions

1. After seeing the sketch of the murder suspect, what does the witness tell Lindsay?

2. How does Claire respond to Lindsay's news about her illness?

3. Why does Lindsay insist to Raleigh, while they are in Cleveland, that the killer had to have known Kathy?

4. What causes Lindsay to cry at the end of Chapter 25?

5. What does Kathy Voskuhl's family tell Lindsay about an old boyfriend of hers?

6. What is the reader supposed to assume about the strange man watching Becky Passeneu at Saks?

7. What in particular disturbs Lindsay about the Brandt murder scene?

8. How does Phillip Campbell react when he walks by the crowd gathering outside of the hotel where the Brandts have been found murdered?

9. What happens to Lindsay when she goes back to the Brandts hotel room for the second time?

10. Why does Lindsay's doctor want to treat her with blood transfusions?

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