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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Karen help Hickey after she injures him?
(a) She stitches his wound.
(b) She gives him her cell phone.
(c) She surrenders.
(d) She gives him the ransom money.

2. What does Dr. McDill find out that his wife is hiding?
(a) Hickey made her pay more ransom than he initially knew about.
(b) Hickey forced her to perform acts of sex.
(c) Mrs. McDill knows about the current kidnapping.
(d) Mrs. McDill personally knew the kidnappers.

3. Who enters the room while Karen is looking through the New England Journal of Medicine?
(a) Joe Hickey.
(b) Huey Cotton.
(c) Will Jennings.
(d) Abby Jennings.

4. When Peter finds his mother what is his reaction?
(a) He becomes extremely excited and runs to her.
(b) He is mad at her.
(c) He begins to cry.
(d) He is afraid because of her wild, unusual appearance.

5. After Karen first tries to call the police, what does Karen return to the kitchen with to gain control over Hickey?
(a) Will's gun.
(b) A rag soaked in chloroform.
(c) A bottle of poison.
(d) A knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Will find out that Abby was kidnapped?

2. Who does Karen successfully explain to Stephanie Morgan that the kidnapper is?

3. How often does the kidnapper have to call his partner throughout the kidnapping?

4. Will is instructed to contact his accountant and state that he needs cash for what?

5. Dr. McDill and his wife discuss their kidnapping story with whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the story that Will Jennings is instructed to tell his accountant, as described in Chapter 3.

2. During Chapter 9, Dr. and Mrs. McDill talk with Special Agent Chalmers about what?

3. In Chapter 5, how does the reader learn that Hickey's compassion is really non-existent?

4. Describe how Karen injures Hickey as part of her plan to help Abby, in Chapter 7.

5. In Chapter 5, how does Hickey display some common sense and compassion when it comes Abby?

6. Explain the events of Hickey's kidnapping of Abby in Chapter 2.

7. Explain the relationship between Will and Karen Jennings, as described in Chapter 2.

8. Describe Cheryl's past, as depicted in Chapter 6.

9. What is so significant about the amount of money chosen for ransom as described in Chapter 3? What will Hickey, Huey, and Cheryl it use the money for?

10. In Chapter 10, why does Hickey tell Will that he should not have Huey's cell phone signal traced?

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