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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Dr. Kay Scarpetta?
(a) Just a regular doctor.
(b) A nurse with a PhD.
(c) The medical examiner.
(d) A microbiologist .

2. Who is Mark James?
(a) Scarpetta's dead brother.
(b) Scarpetta's dead father.
(c) Scarpetta's dead ex-husband.
(d) Scarpetta's dead boyfriend.

3. When the novel first opens, who is Scarpetta waiting for in the morgue?
(a) Ronnie Joe Waddell.
(b) Pete Marino.
(c) Television reporters.
(d) Her assistant, Susan.

4. Where was Eddie Heath's body found?
(a) Behind a grocery store.
(b) Behind a post office.
(c) Behind Scarpetta's house.
(d) Behind a hospital.

5. Who tells Scarpetta that Waddell's execution is taking place as planned?
(a) Pete Marino.
(b) Waddell himself.
(c) No one.
(d) Ben Stevens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Eddie Health?

2. What does Grueman question about Scarpetta's autopsy of Waddell?

3. Who wrote "Cruel and Unusual"?

4. How does Nicholas Grueman usually make Scarpetta feel?

5. What request is in the envelope that is found with Waddell?

(see the answer key)

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