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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 is cell crystallization?
(a) Cells that crystallize from cold.
(b) Cells that crystallize from water.
(c) Cells that crystallize from salt.
(d) Cells that crystallize from heat.

2. Channel ______ is the channel of choice for people with an eye for carnage.
(a) Six.
(b) Seven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Thirteen.

3. The narrator is wearing all of the following in Chapter 1, except for which?
(a) Hairnet.
(b) Gloves.
(c) Mask.
(d) Coveralls.

4. Who finds the refrigerated truck used to transport the decapitated bodies in Chapter 11?
(a) Doakes.
(b) Dexter.
(c) LaGuerta.
(d) Deborah.

5. The narrator explains how he secures the priest to the table with ______.
(a) Rope.
(b) Fishing wire.
(c) Plastic wrap.
(d) Duct tape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator take Father Donovan?

2. Who is nicknamed "Einstein"?

3. In what city do the murders in the novel take place?

4. According to Deborah, in the last month ______ refrigerated trucks have been reported stolen.

5. Captain Matthews tells LaGuerta that ______ is going to maintain a peripheral involvement in this case.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dexter do on his date with Rita that upsets her? What is Dexter's reaction to the situation? What is he thinking about?

2. What is the name of the suspect arrested in the Tamiami Trail murder case? What makes this person a potential suspect?

3. Explain what Dexter believes the real Tamiami Trail Killer is going to do now that there has been an arrest in the murder case.

4. Whose point of view the story is told from? How is this point of view useful in understanding the overall meaning of the novel?

5. Describe in detail the process by which Dexter captures his first victim of the novel. Where does he take his victim?

6. Why does Dexter attend the Metro's seventy-two hour meeting? Who is unhappy that Dexter is at the meeting? Explain.

7. What "trophy" does the Tamiami Trail Killer give to Dexter? For what reason does Dexter believe the killer gave him this trophy?

8. For what reason does Dexter say he does his job? Does he do it to catch the bad guy?

9. Dexter states that he has a small reputation for hunches, what does he mean? Why is he capable of having such hunches?

10. What object is sitting on top of the package of body parts found in the goalie's net at the ice rink? Who is the object left for? Why?

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