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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nana cooking in the kitchen when Pierce returns to the Cross house in Chapter 99?
(a) Chili.
(b) Soup and bread.
(c) Rice and ham.
(d) Bread, roast chicken, and sweet potatoes.

2. How does Pierce feel at the beginning of Chapter 106?
(a) Scared.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Compassionate.
(d) Invincible.

3. What does Soneji throw inside the hospital room when he sees Cross and Groza?
(a) A lit match.
(b) Gasoline.
(c) A bomb.
(d) Turpentine.

4. What does Pierce find inside the coal stove in Cross' cellar?
(a) A sleeping cat.
(b) Cross' burned detective shield.
(c) Bones.
(d) A half-burned letter.

5. What poet has written about the setting of Atlantic City?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

6. From where does Pierce receive a medical internship after graduating from Harvard?
(a) Massachusetts General.
(b) Brigham Young Women's Hospital.
(c) New York Hospital.
(d) Providence Hospital.

7. What occupation does Pierce's father have?
(a) Store Manager.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Lawyer.

8. What role does Pierce say Conklin has played in his friendship with Soneji at the end of Chapter 100?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Leader.
(c) Creative thinker.
(d) Friendly helper.

9. How does Soneji feel as he hurries through the tunnels beneath Bellevue Hospital?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Compassionate.
(c) Calm.
(d) Sick.

10. Where does Soneji's recurring nightmare take place?
(a) At his stepmother's house.
(b) On his grandfather's farm.
(c) Underground in the train station.
(d) His elementary school.

11. How old is Pierce?
(a) Fifty-two.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Thirty-three.

12. From where does Pierce fly to get to Washington?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

13. What does Thomas Pierce study at Harvard?
(a) Math.
(b) Literature.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Anthropology.

14. Pierce impales Isabella's heart on what item?
(a) A spear from scuba equipment.
(b) A stick.
(c) A knife.
(d) A barbecue skewer.

15. How long has Cross known Craig?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Five years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Soneji think Shareef is on what floor in Bellevue Hospital?

2. What does Pierce say to Sampson before he leaves Princeton to go to Paris?

3. Where has Mr. Smith hidden Sante?

4. Who tells Nana Mama the truth about Cross' condition?

5. How does Craig characterize Pierce in Chapter 104?

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