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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 Claire say that she had to promise the other M.E. in order to calm him down in chapter twenty-nine?

2. What does the killer do in his 911 call to the police that gets Davidson to the building?

3. What does Lindsay's father say when she tells him that her mother had always said he was a pathological liar?

4. What does Weiscz say when Lindsay tells him she is investigating four murders?

5. What does the sign at Pelican Bay explain as you go in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the conversation that Cindy and Winslow have in chapter thirty-nine.

2. What do Lindsay and her father discuss when he first arrives at her home?

3. What does Lindsay discover when she goes to see Mercer's wife?

4. After thinking about what Weiscz told Lindsay what does she do?

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

6. Describe the scene where Claire is attacked.

7. What changes occur after the death of Mercer?

8. Describe the call that the killer made to 911 that lured Davidson in to be killed.

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

10. What does Lindsay learn about Frank Coombs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

1) Do you believe that the new police chief new that Lindsay was withholding something after he explained about the ninth bullet that was found in Frank Coombs? Why or why not?

2) Compare the relationship that Lindsay has with the new police chief as apposed to the relationship that she had with Mercer.

3) How has Lindsay changed over the course of the story?

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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