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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Ronnie Joe Waddell executed?
(a) Accidentally in the morgue.
(b) In someone's backyard.
(c) At a prison.
(d) In a bar.

3. What reason is Scarpetta given for the unusual appearance of Waddell's body?
(a) He tripped and fell.
(b) He had a nose bleed.
(c) He wouldn't let anyone shave him.
(d) He was dead a few minutes ago.

4. Who solved the case that sent Waddell to prison?
(a) Scarpetta.
(b) Wellesly.
(c) Marino.
(d) Lucy.

5. Who does Scarpetta meet at the hospital to examine Eddie Heath?
(a) Officer James Powers.
(b) Detective Joe Trent.
(c) No one.
(d) Detective Pete Marino.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Scarpetta instruct to take Waddell's fingerprints?

2. On what day does Lucy fly up to see Scarpetta?

3. Who does Scarpetta realize has been the only person, other than herself, alone in her office?

4. Who tells Scarpetta that Susan has gone home sick?

5. Where did Susan tell others she was going to before she was murdered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has happened to Eddie Heath?

2. What is Scarpetta's feeling on the death penalty?

3. What did Jennifer take an interest in shortly before her death?

4. How are Scarpetta and Jennifer Deighton connected?

5. Why does Jennifer's neighbor not like her?

6. What does Marino confess to Scarpetta about his dating life while over at her house on Christmas?

7. What does Lucy think is going on with Waddell's fingerprints supposedly being found at Jennifer's death scene?

8. Why is the prison nearly empty when Marino and Scarpetta go to investigate Waddell's execution?

9. What evidence points to murder instead of suicide at the scene where Jennifer's body is found?

10. Who is Nicholas Grueman?

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