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

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

3. What does Susan break during Eddie Heath's autopsy?
(a) Her glasses.
(b) Glass jars of formaldehyde.
(c) Her wrist.
(d) Scarpetta's computer.

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

5. What was Jennifer's relationship like with her ex-husband?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Cold.
(c) Non-existent.
(d) Vindictive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dr. Kay Scarpetta?

2. Who is the Christmas dinner guest of Lucy and Scarpetta?

3. Why does Scarpetta decide to stop at Susan's house on her way to a party?

4. What first signals to Scarpetta that Jennifer's death may not be what it seems?

5. Who informs Susan's family that she has been murdered?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Scarpetta get angry at Lucy within the first few days that she is visiting?

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

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

4. What reasons does Susan give Scarpetta for why she has been acting funny lately?

5. What suspicious call does Scarpetta get while in the lab after Jennifer's autopsy?

6. Who was Robyn Naismith?

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

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

9. What does Trace find out about the residue on Heath's wrists?

10. Who is Nicholas Grueman?

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