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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. Who wrote "Cruel and Unusual"?
(a) J. K. Rowling.
(b) Patricia Higginson.
(c) Anonymous.
(d) Patricia Cornwell.

2. What does Scarpetta find on Eddie Heath's wrists during his autopsy?
(a) Chewing gum.
(b) Tape residue.
(c) Marker marks.
(d) Rope.

3. Why are most employees unable to come to the morgue the day after Jennifer's body was found?
(a) Because the paparazzi is chasing them.
(b) Because of a bad snow storm.
(c) Because someone has changed all the locks.
(d) Because they are on strike.

4. Who informs Susan's family that she has been murdered?
(a) Officer James Powers.
(b) Lucy and Marino.
(c) Lucy and Scarpetta.
(d) Marino and Scarpetta.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Jennifer's body found?

2. Who is Dr. Kay Scarpetta?

3. What does Scarpetta notice immediately about Waddell's body?

4. What does Lucy do to pass the time when Scarpetta is at work?

5. What ends Scarpetta's visit to Susan's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Scarpetta's personal life.

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

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

4. What makes Marino and Scarpetta think Jennifer was not killed as part of a robbery.

5. What has happened to Eddie Heath?

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

7. What is so strange about the prison warden's behavior at the holiday party Scarpetta attends?

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

9. What does Lucy suggest about what has happened to Scarpetta's computer?

10. Who was Robyn Naismith?

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