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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Scarpetta want to speak with Anna Zenner?
(a) Zenner received a visit from the FBI.
(b) Zenner worked with Jill Harrington.
(c) Zenner had information on the killer.
(d) Zenner has information about the bullet.

2. Who else is killed at Steven Spurrier's home?
(a) Clifford Ring.
(b) Mark James.
(c) Pat Harvey.
(d) Abby Turnbull.

3. What does Marino learn from the owner of the 1990 Lincoln Mark Seven?
(a) The car was a rental from a local company.
(b) The car had been sold several years ago.
(c) The car was at an airport, not in a restaurant parking lot.
(d) The car was at a local garage that night, not in a restaurant parking lot.

4. Who approaches Abby Turnbull and Scarpetta in the restaurant parking lot after their dinner meeting?
(a) Two young men in a dark car.
(b) A young man in a dark car.
(c) A young couple in a dark car.
(d) A young woman in a dark car.

5. Who rescues Scarpetta when she gets lost looking for Wesley's house?
(a) Mark James.
(b) Pat Harvey.
(c) Pete Marino.
(d) Benton Wesley.

6. Who is Mad Dog Mama?
(a) Pat Harvey.
(b) Hilda Ozimek.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) Scarpetta's teaching skeleton.

7. What does Marino tell Scarpetta about Abby Turnbull and Clifford Ring?
(a) Clifford had helped Abby get the job at the paper.
(b) Abby was Clifford's sister-in-law.
(c) Abby and Clifford were lovers.
(d) Abby and Clifford were collaborating on a book.

8. How was Elizabeth Mott killed?
(a) She was strangled.
(b) She was shot in the back.
(c) She was shot in the neck and stabbed in the chest.
(d) Her throat was cut.

9. What does Abby Turnbull discover about the owner of the car with the license plate number Marino traced?
(a) He has a prior criminal record in another state.
(b) He looks like the man that approached Abby and Scarpetta in Williamsburg.
(c) Abby once did an interview of the car owner.
(d) He is not the same man that approached Abby and Scarpetta in Williamsburg.

10. What does Pat Harvey learn about her husband from an article in the Washington Post?
(a) He is having an affair.
(b) He is a former CIA agent.
(c) He has always resented Pat's political aspirations.
(d) He was drunk in a bar the night Deborah disappeared.

11. Where did Jill Harrington go almost every week her third year in law school?
(a) Quantico, Virginia.
(b) Richmond, Virginia.
(c) Annandale, Virginia.
(d) Washington, DC.

12. In Chapter 10, who does Scarpetta suspect might be the serial killer?
(a) A former medical examiner.
(b) A former aide to the President.
(c) A federal agent.
(d) A domestic terrorist.

13. What "profile" of the serial killer is emerging in Chapter 16?
(a) A man afraid of animals.
(b) A loner who has violent, sexualized fantasies.
(c) A man unhappy about losing a lover.
(d) A man who enjoys socializing.

14. What does Abby Turnbull notice on the car driven by the stranger who approached them in the restaurant parking lot after dinner?
(a) A Colonial Williamsburg parking sticker.
(b) A large scrape on the bumper.
(c) A Quantico sticker on the bumper.
(d) The rear bumper is a different color.

15. How does Scarpetta know Anna Zenner?
(a) Scarpetta worked with Anna on special cases.
(b) From an old newspaper article.
(c) Scarpetta saw Anna professionally.
(d) She had worked with another parent in Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is similar in the murders of Jill Harrington and Elizabeth Mott to the murders of Deborah Harvey and Fred Cheney?

2. After Steven Spurrier is arrested, what do the police find searching his home?

3. Where is Elizabeth Mott's abandoned car found?

4. What does Scarpetta suspect is of greatest importance to the serial killer?

5. What is located at Quantico, Virginia?

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