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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Craig characterize Pierce in Chapter 104?
(a) As being misrepresented.
(b) As a cold-blooded killer.
(c) As being innocent.
(d) As a bumbler.

2. What is the one possession about which Pierce cares?
(a) A watch given to him by Isabella.
(b) A ring.
(c) A car.
(d) A nice pair of shoes.

3. Where does Martin Straw live?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) New York City.
(c) Paris.
(d) Concord, Massachusetts.

4. What does Christine call students in Laura Dixon's first-grade class?
(a) Problem students.
(b) Good writers and readers.
(c) Too young to understand how to behave.
(d) Cuddly kittens and perky puppies.

5. Who discovers Nana in the street?
(a) The police.
(b) A bus driver.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) Sampson.

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

7. Who is Simon Conklin?
(a) The Police Chief.
(b) Soneji's childhood friend.
(c) A pilot.
(d) An FBI investigator.

8. Mr. Smith is disguised as what when he attacks Sante?
(a) A policeman.
(b) A junkie.
(c) A street person.
(d) A doctor.

9. Where has Mr. Smith hidden Sante?
(a) In an old school.
(b) In a dumbwaiter.
(c) In a hotel room.
(d) In a factory building.

10. Where does Cross go in Chapter 112?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Long Island.
(d) New Hampshire.

11. Who picks up Christine Johnson at her apartment in Chapter 97?
(a) The CIA.
(b) The FBI.
(c) Sampson.
(d) Pierce.

12. Where do Interpol and the French police gather to find Sante's body?
(a) At a lake.
(b) In a field.
(c) The ircus.
(d) A park.

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

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

15. With whom is Cross speaking on an airfield?
(a) FBI agents.
(b) Sampson and Pierce.
(c) Christine.
(d) Sondra Greenberg and Pierce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occupation does Pierce's father have?

2. What is Pierce's occupation?

3. What kind of work has Cross done for years at the hospital?

4. What is the relationship between Martin Straw and Isabella?

5. What role does Pierce say Conklin has played in his friendship with Soneji at the end of Chapter 100?

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