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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What holiday weekend is being observed when the story opens?
(a) Thanksgiving weekend.
(b) Fourth of July weekend.
(c) Labor Day weekend.
(d) Memorial Day weekend.

6. Who else heard Deborah and Fred being directed to the rest area?
(a) Deborah's brothers.
(b) A woman pumping gas.
(c) An unidentified man.
(d) Fred's father.

7. In the murders of Deborah and Fred, who does Marino think was killed first?
(a) Deborah Harvey.
(b) Fred Cheney.
(c) Fred and Deborah were killed together.
(d) Killer forced Fred to shoot Deborah.

8. Where does Scarpetta run into Pat Harvey?
(a) In Richmond.
(b) In Williamsburg, VA.
(c) In Washington, DC.
(d) At a holiday party.

9. Who is writing a book about the murdered couples?
(a) Benton Wesley.
(b) Pat Harvey.
(c) Pete Marino.
(d) Abby Turnbull.

10. Who are the two investigators Scarpetta lunches with to discuss the missing teens case?
(a) Abby Turnbull and Benton Wesley.
(b) Pete Marino and Bob Harvey.
(c) Bob Harvey and Dave Cheney.
(d) Benton Wesley and Pete Marino.

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

12. As Chapter 2 opens, Kay Scarpetta is invited to lunch by whom?
(a) Pete Marino.
(b) Pat Harvey.
(c) Bob Harvey.
(d) Deborah Harvey.

13. As the story opens, where is the crime scene investigation taking place?
(a) A beach house on the coast of North Carolina.
(b) In an apartment building near the Richmond airport.
(c) At a resort in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
(d) A rest stop off highway I-64.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was found in the other abandoned cars, but missing from Deborah's Jeep?

3. Which missing teen's mother is dead?

4. Why is Scarpetta in Richmond?

5. When Scarpetta examines the bodies of Deborah Harvey and Fred Cheney in the woods, what does she notice?

(see the answer keys)

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