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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Marino think Deborah and Fred walked slowly into the woods?
(a) They were shackled at the ankles.
(b) They had hoods over their heads.
(c) They were barefoot.
(d) They were bound side-by-side.

3. Why does Scarpetta take the bones of Fred and Deborah to Washington, DC?
(a) She wanted to take the bones to the FBI lab.
(b) She wanted to confer with Dr. Vessey at the Smithsonian.
(c) She wanted to deliver the remains to the funeral home Pat Harvey had selected.
(d) She wanted to have the chief forensic specialist at Walter Reed Hospital examine the remains.

4. What do toxicology reports on the teen victims reveal about drugs?
(a) A "designer" drug was present.
(b) The reports were inconclusive.
(c) The reports were negative for drugs.
(d) The reports were positive for drugs.

5. What town in South Carolina are Scarpetta and Marino looking for?
(a) Beaufort, South Carolina.
(b) West Bend, South Carolina.
(c) West Point, South Carolina.
(d) Six Mile, South Carolina.

6. Where does Scarpetta go for exercise?
(a) An indoor pool.
(b) An indoor tennis club.
(c) An indoor track.
(d) An indoor skating rink.

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

8. What do Scarpetta and Turnbull believe Camp Peary might be?
(a) Training ground for CIA agents.
(b) Training ground for the Virginia National Guard.
(c) Training ground for the Marines.
(d) Training ground for the Green Berets.

9. What is the main character's occupation?
(a) Search and rescue team leader.
(b) Chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia.
(c) Homicide detective on the Richmond police force.
(d) Investigator with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

10. What was found at the crime scene, alerting investigators the teens had made a stop?
(a) Ticket stubs from a movie theater.
(b) A convenience store receipt.
(c) A receipt from a motel.
(d) A restaurant receipt.

11. 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.

12. Who calls Scarpetta at home in the evening on the day Fred and Deborah's bodies were found?
(a) Abby Turnbul.
(b) Fred Cheney's father.
(c) Pat Harvey.
(d) Haresh.

13. What is Scarpetta asking Dr. Vessey to examine?
(a) A phalange.
(b) A small piece of foreign material.
(c) A broken femur.
(d) A small piece of wrist bone.

14. When Scarpetta examines the bodies of Deborah Harvey and Fred Cheney in the woods, what does she notice?
(a) The bodies had been moved.
(b) The bones were mixed together in a jumbled heap.
(c) The bodies had been lying in a pond.
(d) Body parts had been scattered.

15. When Pat Harvey shows Hilda a picture of Deborah, what does Hilda immediately know?
(a) Deborah was angry at her mother.
(b) Deborah is dead.
(c) Deborah was in a motel.
(d) Deborah and Fred had a fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Abby Turnbull's sister?

2. What were the names of the two teenagers reported missing?

3. What was found in an ice chest at the crime scene?

4. Who else does Scarpetta visit in Washington, DC after seeing Dr. Vessey?

5. What does Pat Harvey want Scarpetta to give her?

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