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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Santa Teresa, where Kinsey works and lives, described in Chapter 2?
(a) As a vital and exciting city.
(b) As a haven for the rich.
(c) As a slumbering suburb.
(d) As a rundown working-class town.

2. What other case in Kinsey working on while she thinks about Nikki's request?
(a) The disappearance of a millionaire.
(b) The death of a child in a car accident.
(c) A case of arson at a local business.
(d) A case of fraud against an insurance company.

3. Before Kinsey meets with Gwen for a second time, Charlie Scorsoni shows up. What does he want?
(a) To track down Laurence Fife's car.
(b) Gwen's phone number.
(c) To apologize to Kinsey and tell her he wants to help her with the Fife case.
(d) To confess his involvement in Laurence Fife's murder.

4. During Kinsey's first interview with her, how does Gwen describe herself in her role as Laurence's first wife?
(a) She was very happy as a stay-at-home wife and mother.
(b) They had a long-distance marriage and she rarely saw him.
(c) She was perfectly made up and dressed and was a dutiful cook and mother.
(d) She had her own career and was rarely home.

5. Soon after leaving her interview with Nikki, Kinsey returns to her surveillance of the insurance fraudster. What does she notice has changed at the woman's apartment?
(a) The drapes have been changed in the living room.
(b) A different car is parked in the woman's regular space.
(c) A withered plant that had been there before has been replaced with a huge hanging plant.
(d) Her name has been removed from her mailbox.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Rosie, the owner of Rosie's Bar, openly hostile to Nikki when she and Kinsey meet there for lunch?

2. After noticing a change at her insurance fraudster's apartment, what does Kinsey do?

3. What was the evidence against Nikki that helped convict her?

4. At their second meeting, Charlie and Kinsey talk about the Fife case. Charlie tells her Laurence travelled the week before he died. Where did Laurence go?

5. Nikki served time for this crime. How long was she in jail?

(see the answer key)

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