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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 does Lindsay see in the pictures that she is looking at in chapter twenty-four?

2. What had happened that caused Lindsay to go to Hope Streeet?

3. What file catches Lindsay's eye in chapter twenty-four?

4. What does Lindsay think that Aaron Winslow looks like when she sees him in chapter three?

5. What does Jill tell the other girls had happened about five years earlier?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Cindy and Lindsay discuss when they meet for drinks in chapter seven?

3. What does Lindsay explain about her parents?

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

5. What is Lindsay's initial assessment of the crime scene in chapter two?

6. Describe the scene at the arcade in chapter eight.

7. What is the killer doing in chapter twenty-five?

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

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

10. What is Aaron Winslow able to tell Lindsay when she talks to him in chapter three?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) When Weiscz told Lindsay that it sounded like an inside job was it something that caught your attention before she focused on? Why or why not?

2) Who did you first suspect of being Chimera before Frank Coombs was looked at? Explain.

3) Was it clear what Frank meant when he told Lindsay that there was going to be one more surprise? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

1) Compare the four women that make up the murder club.

2) Speculate on why these women work so well together in regards to coming up with answers.

3) Do you feel that the women are in competition with one another? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

1) Do you think that the story could have been told from another character's point of view rather than Lindsay? If so which one and why?

2) If you were going to write a follow up story to 2nd Chance which character would be the main focus?

3) What effect did it have that the author put Lindsay's point of view in first person but used third person with the other characters? Could first or third have been used for all the characters? Why or why not?

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