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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 the killer tell Mercer in chapter forty-three before shooting him?

2. What does Claire suggest that Lindsay do for her father in chapter fifty-five?

3. What does Cindy tell Aaron Winslow that she enjoys doing after work sometimes?

4. What does Cappy do to Evans in chapter thirty-seven while asking him questions?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Lindsay learn about Frank Coombs?

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

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

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

7. Describe the murder of Mercer.

8. Describe Lindsay's meeting with Weiscz.

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

10. Describe the scene where Claire is attacked.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Was Mercer's death in the story necessary?

2) What do you believe Mercer was going to tell Lindsay?

3) Do you think that Mercer knew that the events surrounding Lindsay's father leaving were connected to Chimera?

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) Does it seem accurate when Lindsay explains that Jill is not in a partnership with her husband but in competition with him?

2) Speculate on how a marriage would get to that point.

3) Do you believe that all of the women in the book would have the same tendencies? Why or why not?

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