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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. How does Lindsay respond to Jenks' initial claims to innocence?

2. What is Lindsay doing as Jenks is arraigned?

3. Who is Jill Bernhardt?

4. What does Raleigh tell Lindsay about a police call to Jenks' house several years ago?

5. Who becomes the fourth member of the Women's Murder Club?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lindsay start to feel about her illness after her doctor mentions she might need a bone marrow transplant?

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

3. What does Raleigh try to convince Lindsay of after she nearly faints when discussing whether they have arrested the right person?

4. What does Raleigh do when he and Lindsay arrive at Joanna's apartment after Jenks has escaped?

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

6. What does Jacobi learn about Nicholas Jenks just as he is emerging as a suspect?

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

8. What does Joanna tell Lindsay about her relationship with Chessy?

9. What does Lindsay's doctor tell her about her health after Jenks is arrested?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze at least three literary techniques Patterson uses to make one character of your choosing from the Women's Murder Club very likable OR very unlikable to the reader.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss at least three reasons why "1st to Die" could be classified in a genre other than murder mystery, making sure to use specific examples from the text to support your position.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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