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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marino give Scarpetta for Christmas?
(a) A new gun holster.
(b) He takes Lucy shooting.
(c) A phone for her car.
(d) A police radio.

2. What does Lucy think someone was trying to do on Scarpetta's computer?
(a) Send a message.
(b) Plant evidence.
(c) Build a bomb.
(d) Leave a virus.

3. What does Lucy need to get into Scarpetta's database?
(a) A special microchip.
(b) An actual key.
(c) A fingerprint sample.
(d) Her name and password.

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

5. Who tells Scarpetta that the police were able to lift several fingerprints from the scene where Jennifer's body was found?
(a) Powers.
(b) No one.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Marino.

6. Who is the Christmas dinner guest of Lucy and Scarpetta?
(a) Marino.
(b) Scarpetta's boyfriend.
(c) All of these answers are correct.
(d) Lucy's mother.

7. Why must Susan lie down during Eddie Health's autopsy?
(a) Because she cannot see now that her glasses are broken.
(b) Because the formaldehyde is not good for pregnant women.
(c) Because she has compromised the security of the lab by breaking Scarpetta's computer.
(d) Because she is of no use with her broken wrist.

8. What has happened to the fingerprints taken from Waddell during his autopsy?
(a) They got burned in a fire.
(b) They got ruined in a flood.
(c) They have been switched with Scarpetta's.
(d) No one knows; they are missing.

9. Who is Frank Donahue?
(a) Scarpetta's boyfriend.
(b) The prison warden.
(c) Lucy's boyfriend.
(d) Lucy's father.

10. When does Scarpetta determine Jennifer died?
(a) The night before her body is found.
(b) At least a month ago.
(c) Only a few moments before Scarpetta arrives on the scene.
(d) At least a week ago.

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

12. What office issues a report about the residue found on Eddie Heath's wrists?
(a) The mayor's office.
(b) The president's office.
(c) Ballistics.
(d) Trace.

13. How old is Eddie Health?
(a) 40.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 10.

14. 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.

15. What is Lucy's area of expertise?
(a) Math.
(b) Computers.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Chemistry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Eddie Heath's body found?

2. What neighborhood do Marino and Scarpetta go and visit after they see where Waddell was visited?

3. Where does Scarpetta find an envelope on Waddell's body?

4. Whose fingerprint has been found in the dining room of Jennifer Deighton's house?

5. What suggests that Waddell hasn't eaten in a few days?

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