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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 Cindy say about Aaron Winslow in chapter twenty-eight while talking to Lindsay?

2. What does Claire say she thinks is possible after her examination of Mercer's body.

3. What does Mercer buy while at Kim's shop in chapter forty-three?

4. What does Evans tell Lindsay about the club when she lays down pictures in chapter thirty-eight?

5. What is the wild party that Davidson was going to as he describes it in chapter thirty-one?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does officer Davidson die?

2. Describe the scene where Claire is attacked.

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

4. What changes occur after the death of Mercer?

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

6. Describe Lindsay's meeting with Weiscz.

7. Describe the scene when Lindsay first meets with the warden of Pelican Bay, Estes.

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

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

10. Describe the memorial service that is held for Tasha Catchings.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What did it reveal to the reader when it was seen that Rusty was picking out who to 'immortalize' while in the tower?

2) Would you have written the stand off scene at the end of the story differently? Why or why not?

3) What was your reaction when you saw that it was the bells that allowed Lindsay to get her shot in when Rusty had been hoping that the bells would play at his funeral?

Essay Topic 2

1) What was the main plot of the story?

2) What were three of the top subplots in the story? How did they affect the main plot?

3) What was the climax of the main plot?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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