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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which police officer arrives to watch Waddell's autopsy?
(a) None of the officers.
(b) Wellesly.
(c) All of the officers.
(d) Marino.

2. What is the name of the guard who searches Scarpetta when she goes to see where Waddell was executed?
(a) Helen.
(b) Anna Marie.
(c) Amy.
(d) Cathy.

3. What does Scarpetta think of the lack of abrasions on Heath's wrists?
(a) He was definitely not killed by Waddell.
(b) The tape was very loose.
(c) Someone other than the killer put tape on his wrists.
(d) He was bound after he was shot.

4. How old is Susan Story?
(a) In her teens.
(b) 75.
(c) She is, perhaps, in her 20s or 30s.
(d) 67.

5. What request is in the envelope that is found with Waddell?
(a) To send it to Waddell's girlfriend.
(b) To bury the envelope with Waddell.
(c) For Scarpetta to open the envelope privately.
(d) To send it to Waddell's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the novel first opens, who is Scarpetta waiting for in the morgue?

2. What is Susan Story's job?

3. What is Scarpetta's opinion of Heath's killer?

4. Whose name does Scarpetta willingly remove as a witness to Eddie Heath's autopsy?

5. "Cruel and Unusual" is which number in the Scarpetta series?

(see the answer key)

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