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

2. What does Scarpetta find on her computer after Susan has gone there to lie down?
(a) Drugs.
(b) A resignation letter.
(c) Incriminating pictures.
(d) A file she did not create.

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

4. What is the official ruling on how Jennifer died?
(a) Accidental drowning.
(b) Strangulation.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Suicide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucy question Scarpetta about on the phone that makes her uncomfortable?

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

3. When does Scarpetta determine Jennifer died?

4. With whom does Susan catch a ride on the day most employees cannot come to work?

5. Where does Lucy live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Lucy and Scarpetta do on Christmas morning?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe Scarpetta's personal life.

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

10. Who is Nicholas Grueman?

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