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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Scarpetta and Marino fly to South Carolina?
(a) To learn more about Fred Cheney's family.
(b) To learn more about the serial killer and victims.
(c) To find out where Marino's estranged wife is living.
(d) To learn more about the CIA.

2. What is the occupation of Scarpetta's friend, Abby Turnbull?
(a) Newspaper reporter.
(b) CIA agent.
(c) FBI undercover agent.
(d) Lawyer.

3. When Scarpetta is paged, what does she learn?
(a) The serial killer has been identified.
(b) Two bodies have been found.
(c) The missing teens have been spotted in Mexico.
(d) The missing teens were found at a motel.

4. What do Marino and Scarpetta find where Deborah was shot?
(a) A gun.
(b) A dead dog.
(c) A spent cartridge casing.
(d) An article of her clothing with a bullet hole.

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

6. In all of the unsolved teen murders, Scarpetta has not been able to do what?
(a) Identify the victims.
(b) Determine the cause of death.
(c) Speak to parents.
(d) Perform an autopsy.

7. At a press conference, what does Pat Harvey divulge regarding her family?
(a) Deborah was adopted.
(b) Deborah and Fred were actually married.
(c) Deborah was pregnant.
(d) Her family had been threatened.

8. What does Scarpetta learn about Hilda Ozimek's findings?
(a) Scarpetta learns the parents were told the teens are okay.
(b) Scarpetta learns the parents were told the teens eloped.
(c) Scarpetta learns the parents were told the teens are dead.
(d) Scarpetta learns nothing.

9. Who calls Dr. Sessions about the murders of Deborah and Fred?
(a) Director of the CIA.
(b) Clifford Ring.
(c) Abby Turnbull.
(d) Director of the FBI.

10. Who is sitting with Pat Harvey at the press conference?
(a) Bruce Cheney.
(b) Pat Harvey's husband.
(c) The president.
(d) Scarpetta.

11. How does the mother of one of the missing teens arrive at the crime scene?
(a) By motor boat.
(b) By ski-doo.
(c) By bus.
(d) By helicopter.

12. What does Pat Harvey threaten to do if Scarpetta doesn't give her what she asked for?
(a) Get a court order.
(b) File an official complaint with the Virginia Medical Board.
(c) Get Scarpetta fired.
(d) Get Scarpetta's medical license revoked.

13. Scarpetta learns the missing teens were varsity athletes in what sports?
(a) Rugby and basketball.
(b) Basketball and soccer.
(c) Football and tennis.
(d) Gymnastic and swimming.

14. What did Hilda Ozimek predict almost to the day that the FBI ignored?
(a) Shooting of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Shooting of President Reagan.
(c) Shooting of John Lennon.
(d) Shooting of John F. Kennedy.

15. What accusation does Pat Harvey level against the US Justice Department?
(a) Involvement in a conspiracy.
(b) The Justice Department bungled the murder investigation.
(c) The Justice Department killed her daugher.
(d) The Justice Department kidnapped her daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Scarpetta learn was left in the abandoned cars of the other murdered teen couples?

2. What place do Scarpetta and Marino visit after returning from South Carolina?

3. Why is Scarpetta angry with Abby?

4. What is one theory for the reason the couples were murdered in the series of unsolved cases?

5. What object belonging to Deborah was handled by the person that gave her directions to the rest stop?

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