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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. Initially, how does Scarpetta respond to the request to look at her records?
(a) She refuses to give them over.
(b) She wants to contact a lawyer first.
(c) All of these answers are correct.
(d) She gets angry.

2. How does Scarpetta answer the questions posed to her in court?
(a) Honestly and openly.
(b) Politely and quickly.
(c) Rudely.
(d) Curtly.

3. What happens to Waddell's body after the autopsy is performed?
(a) It is cremated.
(b) It is donated to science.
(c) It is shipped back to his home in Croatia.
(d) It somehow gets lost.

4. Why does Hilton Sullivan call the police?
(a) He is looking for Lucy.
(b) He wants Scarpetta to finally acknowledge him.
(c) His condo has apparently been robbed.
(d) He wants to confess to the murders.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Scarpetta recognize Sullivan to be?

2. According to Lucy's discovery, someone accessed Waddell's fingerprints on the computer and then ___________________.

3. What kind of article does Scarpetta request Benton put in the newspaper?

4. Over what do Benton and Scarpetta discuss their cases during the holidays?

5. What happens to Grimes by the end of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Scarpetta know that the killer only had access to crime scene pictures, not the crime scene itself, of Robyn's murder?

4. Why is Benton concerned for Scarpetta's safety?

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

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

7. Why does Benton not believe that Waddell would be capable of the recent murders?

8. What act of kindness does Scarpetta do for Charlie Hale?

9. What does Scarpetta learn about the bullets used in both Eddie Heath's and Susan's cases?

10. Why does Jennifer's ex-husband like Scarpetta so much?

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