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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 was Lindsay doing when she heard the news about Mercer?

2. During Tasha's funeral what does Aaron Winslow say that the world does in the face of its worst possible dead in chapter twenty-seven?

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

4. What does Lindsay say that she has?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Lindsay learn about Frank Coombs?

6. Describe the murder of Mercer.

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

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

9. What changes occur after the death of Mercer?

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

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

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 3

1) Speculate on why the white supremacy group in the story chose the Chimera as its symbol.

2) What was significant about the name that was underlined in the mythology book?

3) If you had to pick a different symbol for the group what would you pick and why?

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