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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 strikes Lindsay as odd in the end of chapter two after surveying the crime scene?

2. What does the gunman have in his pocket in chapter eight while at the arcade?

3. What did the killer take a picture of that he is adding to his book in chapter eighteen?

4. What does Mercer say he believes to be the motivation for the shooting that occurred?

5. What does Lindsay tell Cindy that she would like to do just once when they meet in chapter seven?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene in the prologue when the shooting starts.

2. What does Lindsay explain about her parents?

3. Describe the scene in chapter fifteen when Lindsay meets the girls at the bar.

4. Describe the photos that the killer has in chapter eighteen.

5. Describe the conversation that Cindy and Aaron Winslow have in chapter twenty-two.

6. What does Lindsay learn when she goes to look at the case file for Estelle Chipman?

7. What does Ron call Lindsay to tell her they found out about Estelle Chipman in chapter twenty-one?

8. What does Lindsay find at the building where Estelle Chipman was murdered?

9. What happens in chapter sixteen when Jill tells her exciting news?

10. What does Lindsay discover when she goes to the morgue to talk to Claire in chapter eleven?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What did Tasha Catchings represent in the story?

2) Why was her murder what the story opened with?

3) Why was it significant that the window with Tasha in it was the last thing seen in the story or is it significant?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following to write about.

1) If you had to choose one of the jobs of the four women belonging to the murder club, which one would you choose and why? Lawyer, ME, Police officer, or Newspaper reporter.

2) Speculate on the reasons that Weiscz was willing to tell Lindsay anything when she went to talk to him in the prison system.

3) Could there have been something different put on the window of the church? If so what?

Essay Topic 3

1) What role does Lindsay's father play in the story for Lindsay?

2) What is significant about her father showing up when he did?

3) Do you believe that she will see her father again? Why or why not?

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