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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hilda describe an object still at the site where Deborah and Fred were found?
(a) An object shaped like a small pistol.
(b) An object shaped like a screwdriver.
(c) Something long, slender, and very dangerous.
(d) Something metal that has to do with war.

2. In Chapter 5, who is it that Benton Wesley is concerned Scarpetta might have recently seen?
(a) Her friend, Abby Turnbull.
(b) The CIA director.
(c) The publisher of the Washington Post.
(d) The psychic, Hilda Ozimek.

3. What does Hilda report she "saw" when she was taken to Deborah's abandoned Jeep?
(a) A knife with a serrated blade.
(b) A Swiss army knife.
(c) A knotted rope.
(d) Night vision goggles.

4. Who does Scarpetta meet at the Globe and Laurel?
(a) Publisher of the Washington Post.
(b) Chief of the FBI Homicide Investigations Unit.
(c) Benton Wesley.
(d) Clifford Ring.

5. Which character is nicknamed the "drug czar" by the media?
(a) Bob Harvey.
(b) Pat Harvey.
(c) Pete Marino.
(d) Benton Wesley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mistake does Scarpetta think the killer made years before he murdered Deborah and Fred?

2. What is the name of Scarpetta's sometime lover?

3. What activity has the CIA been banned from carrying-out since the Ford Administration?

4. When Pat Harvey shows Hilda a picture of Deborah, what does Hilda immediately know?

5. Who directed Deborah and Fred to the rest area where their car was later found?

(see the answer key)

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