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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eddie Health die from?
(a) Cancer.
(b) No one can really tell for sure.
(c) Starvation.
(d) A gunshot wound to his head.

2. What suggests that Waddell hasn't eaten in a few days?
(a) His hair is falling out.
(b) His skin is unusually moist.
(c) His tubular stomach.
(d) His skin is unusually dry.

3. What does Scarpetta notice immediately about Waddell's body?
(a) Someone has broken his legs.
(b) He has a beard.
(c) It is very bloody.
(d) He is still alive.

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

5. What does Scarpetta conclude after examining the electric chair at the prison?
(a) It was malfunctioning.
(b) It was not the source of the marks on Waddell's arms.
(c) It was the source of the marks on Waddell's arms.
(d) Someone has set it up to explode next time it is used.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Scarpetta meet at the hospital to examine Eddie Heath?

2. What is the name of the guard who searches Scarpetta when she goes to see where Waddell was executed?

3. Where does Waddell's body have strange abrasions?

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

5. What does Susan break during Eddie Heath's autopsy?

(see the answer key)

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