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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. Why does Lindsay visit with her doctor once she returns to San Francisco?

2. What is Jenks' first reaction to being question about Kathy?

3. Where does Jenks tell Lindsay Joanna once worked?

4. What is the name of Jenks's old novel that parallels the bridge and groom cases?

5. What does Jenks force Chessy to do while they are having sex?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lindsay think that Joanna might be the real killer?

2. Why does Lindsay think the killer, Chessy, is headed to the Palace of Fine Arts?

3. Why is Nicholas Jenks' red beard significant to Lindsay?

4. Why is Lindsay's recollection that Jenks is left-handed important?

5. How does Cindy learn that the San Francisco writers' guild has an old copy of Jenks' book?

6. What does Joanna say when Lindsay asks if Nicholas is capable of murder?

7. Why does Lindsay want to meet with Claire and Cindy when she returns from Cleveland?

8. What does Jill tell Jenks as she is questioning him?

9. Why does Jill assure Lindsay of the first time they meet to discuss the case?

10. What does Jenks say when confronted with the photograph of him and Kathy together?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss why it was necessary for Raleigh to die in "1st to Die." Make sure to discuss what effect his death has on the text in general and on Lindsay in particular -- and why those consequences were necessary for the story.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Analyze at least three different literary techniques Patterson uses to create tension in "1st to Die."

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