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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 arrives to comfort Lindsay after her bad dream?

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

3. Who does the driver of the limo claimed hired him?

4. Whom does Lindsay invite to join her and Claire for drinks after discussing the DeGeorges?

5. Where does Lindsay live?

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 causes Lindsay to cry at the end of Chapter 25?

3. Why does Lindsay agree to give Cindy the inside scoop on the DeGeorge murders?

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

5. What does Lindsay learn about Kathy Voskuhl's life before she got married?

6. How does Raleigh react to the DeGeorge murders?

7. What is Lindsay Boxer doing in the Prologue?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss at least three challenges an author such as Patterson faces when discussing technology or forensic science in a novel. Make sure to use at least three examples from "1st to Die" to support your position.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze at least four different ways the story of "1st to Die" would change if the setting were in a rural, Midwestern town instead of San Francisco.

Essay Topic 3

Although the novel seems to conclude with all of the loose ends being tied up, the reader learns from the Prologue that Lindsay is extremely depressed by the time the story ends. Discuss what three things most contribute to Lindsay's unhappiness and why Patterson may have chosen to have his strong, intelligent protagonist so unhappy at the novel's conclusion.

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