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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. What is Melanie Brandt wearing when she is murdered?

2. What does Cindy's boss tell her about sticking with the bride and groom murder story?

3. What does Lindsay thing about the Brandt and the DeGeorge murders?

4. What romantic act do Raleigh and Lindsay do after a casual meal?

5. Where does Lindsay go jogging on a Sunday morning?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What makes people realized that the DeGeorges are missing?

4. How does Gerald Brandt's respond to Lindsay's call about his business dealings after the story hits the paper?

5. What kind of couple are David and Melanie Brandt?

6. What is Melanie Brandt doing when the murderer enters her hotel room?

7. What does Cindy say to Lindsay as she slips her her business card in the hotel bathroom?

8. How does Lindsay react when she learns that her case files have been handed over to the FBI?

9. What is the purpose of the Women's Murder Club?

10. How does the sales associate at Saks react to the strange man watching Becky try on her wedding dress?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss at least three ways that the violence and/or murder scenes in "1st to Die" are gratuitously violent and why such violence takes away from the plot and/or rest of the text.

Essay Topic 2

Choose at least one female character from "1st to Die" and discuss at least three ways she goes against traditional gender stereotypes of someone like her.

Essay Topic 3

Describe at least three things that Patterson is able to do with the character of Lindsay because she is a woman AND at least three things he is *not* able to do with her because she is a woman.

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