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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 goes with Scarpetta to visit Sullivan's apartment?
(a) Benton.
(b) Marino.
(c) Officer James Powers.
(d) Lucy.

2. What has happened to most of Robyn Naismith's furniture?
(a) The furniture burned in a fire.
(b) The furniture was given to charity.
(c) The furniture is still there.
(d) The furniture was moved to a storage building.

3. What is Scarpetta looking for in Robyn Naismith's house?
(a) Lucy's fingerprints.
(b) Eddie Heath's fingerprints.
(c) Waddell's fingerprints.
(d) Robyn's fingerprints.

4. Why does Robyn's ex-husband keep calling Scarpetta?
(a) Robyn's ex-husband has information that may help the case.
(b) Robyn's ex-husband knows about her past.
(c) Robyn's ex-husband is angry that no one has solved her murder.
(d) Robyn was never married.

5. What warning does Marino give Scarpetta about the evidence against her?
(a) It is circumstantial, but compelling.
(b) It is very, very flimsy.
(c) No evidence exists.
(d) It is solid as a rock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the newspapers suggest about Scarpetta and Susan in the days after Susan's death?

2. Who catches Scarpetta in Ben's office?

3. What does Benton do in response to Scarpetta's request to put an article in the paper?

4. Why does the governor request to meet with Scarpetta?

5. Scarpetta consults a bird expert who works for ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Scarpetta find the request to see her guns ridiculous?

2. What causes Benton and Scarpetta to wonder if Eddie Heath's and Robyn's murders are related?

3. Why does Waddell's decision to give up appealing his case surprise Scarpetta?

4. What does Scarpetta accuse Ben of during the confrontation in Ben's office?

5. How does Scarpetta explain away the incriminating evidence found in Susan's home?

6. What personal advice does Marino give Scarpetta over lunch once rumors surrounding Susan's death have hit the papers?

7. What does Scarpetta hypothesize about the killer from the information she learns from the bird expert?

8. What does Grueman confess about why he was so hard on Scarpetta in law school?

9. Once Lucy discovers someone has tapped into AFIS, what is Benton's theory about Waddell's fingerprints?

10. Why is Scarpetta relieved of her duties?

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