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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 Mercer's wife say the doctor had found in Mercer's pocket?

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

3. What were they able to match from Davidson's murder scene and Mercer's murder scene?

4. What does Lindsay say the killer used to sign the killing of Davidson in chapter thirty-five?

5. What was Lindsay's father's pet name for her when she was seven?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Mercer and Lindsay discuss in chapter forty-two?

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

3. Describe Lindsay's meeting with Weiscz.

4. How does officer Davidson die?

5. What happens in chapter fifty when Lindsay has left the bar?

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

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

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

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

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) 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?

Essay Topic 2

1) Did you feel that the author spent a lot of time explaining what happened in the book that the prequel to 2nd Chance? Explain.

2) Do you feel that more or less information was needed about past events? Why?

3) Did reading this book make you interested in reading other books in this series? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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