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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cross says to blame Craig for what in Chapter 102?
(a) Getting them up early in the morning.
(b) Overstatements about Cross' near death state in the hospital.
(c) Bad food service.
(d) Lack of water bottles.

2. What is Pierce's occupation?
(a) Ambulance driver.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Police Sergeant.
(d) Investigator for the FBI.

3. Soneji think Shareef is on what floor in Bellevue Hospital?
(a) Seven.
(b) Eight.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

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

5. When does Cross get home after Pierce/Smith is killed?
(a) Before dinner.
(b) Lunch time.
(c) The next morning.
(d) In time to say good night to his children.

6. What household object does Pierce use to interrogate Conklin?
(a) A toy gun.
(b) A coke can.
(c) A toothbrush.
(d) A milk bottle.

7. Where is Cross' most serious wound?
(a) His leg.
(b) His head.
(c) His chest.
(d) His abdomen.

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

9. What does Cross ask Christine to do at the end of the novel?
(a) Go see a movie.
(b) Spend some time with Nana.
(c) Marry him.
(d) Help him redecorate.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What kind of jokes do Pierce and Greenberg share when they are searching for Mr. Smith?
(a) Practical jokes.
(b) Knock-knock jokes.
(c) Crude jokes.
(d) Space-visitor jokes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kyle Craig have to go to the hospital at the end of Chapter 75?

2. Whom does Christine see waiting for her outside her office at the end of Chapter 88?

3. How long has Cross known Craig?

4. Where does Pierce remember seeing the phrase "Language is more than speech?"

5. To where do Sampson and Pierce take a helicopter?

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