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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. Who comes into the police station with Mercer in chapter thirty-six?

2. What does Cindy say she has learned about the killer in chapter twenty-nine?

3. What does Cindy say that she used to name Lindsay in her article in chapter twenty-six?

4. What does Jacobi tell Lindsay when he calls her from the Blue Parrot?

5. What does Mercer tell Lindsay in chapter forty-two that she hadn't known about Mercer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the murder of Mercer.

2. What happens when Cindy's date arrives in chapter forty-nine?

3. Describe the meeting that Lindsay and the FBI have in chapter fifty-four.

4. Describe Lindsay's meeting with Weiscz.

5. What does Claire tell Lindsay she found in her examination of the skin from under Estelle Chipman's fingernails in chapter twenty-nine?

6. What does Cindy find on Chimera in chapter fifty-six?

7. How does officer Davidson die?

8. What does Lindsay learn about Frank Coombs?

9. What changes occur after the death of Mercer?

10. What happens when Lindsay interrogates Evans in chapter thirty?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

1) What is the importance of Hope Street that is first seen in the story?

2) Why is this place not visited again in the story?

3) Speculate on what it is that Lindsay got from being at Hope Street.

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