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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. 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?

2. What does Lindsay say that she has?

3. What does Lindsay call Cindy when they meet in chapter fifty-seven?

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

5. What does Stu first suggest that they do with the photograph that Lindsay gives him in the beginning of chapter twenty-six?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes occur after the death of Mercer?

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

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

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

5. Describe the scene where Claire is attacked.

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

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

8. How does officer Davidson die?

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

10. Describe Lindsay's meeting with Weiscz.

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 is the importance of Hope Street that is first seen in the story?

2) Why is this place not visited again in the story?

3) Speculate on what it is that Lindsay got from being at Hope Street.

Essay Topic 3

1) Do you think that the story could have been told from another character's point of view rather than Lindsay? If so which one and why?

2) If you were going to write a follow up story to 2nd Chance which character would be the main focus?

3) What effect did it have that the author put Lindsay's point of view in first person but used third person with the other characters? Could first or third have been used for all the characters? Why or why not?

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