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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 Lindsay's full-time job?

2. What paper does Cindy Thomas work for?

3. What does Phillip Campbell hand David Brandt when he answers the door?

4. Where does the family of Karen Voskuhl live?

5. What doctor does Lindsay go see the day after she revisits the Brandt crime scene?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Lindsay doing when she learns that the DeGeorges have been murdered?

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

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

6. What is Lindsay thinking about as she waits to see her doctor for the first time?

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

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

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

10. What two aspects of the Brandt crime scene does Lindsay notice that later become important for the case?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a well-reasoned argument paper discussing how Lindsay's illness, Negli's Aplastic Anemia, functions as its own unique character in "1st to Die." Make sure to use direct evidence from the text to support your strong thesis statement.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Describe at least four features of Nicholas Jenks and how those features fulfill the traditional, literary requirements of a villain.

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