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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jordan's brother-in-law do the first night she visits him?

2. What is the subject of the book Jordan is working on when the novel opens?

3. Where is the FBI trying to gather and analyze all of the Sleeping Women paintings?

4. During their flight to New Orleans, Lenz interacts with Jordan by ________________.

5. Where does Jordan wait until she hears the code to enter during suspect interviews?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Ron Epstein?

2. How does Jordan respond to de Becque's invitation that she come to his house and photograph his paintings?

3. What is so suspicious about the random call Jordan gets in the middle of the night soon after her sister disappears?

4. Why did Kaiser leave a higher ranking position in Quantico for his job in New Orleans?

5. What is Dr. Lenz's theory about the killer(s) behind the Sleeping Women?

6. What does Wheaton report when Lenz asks him if any of his students have painted naked women before?

7. What does de Becque hint about Jordan's father during her first visit to his mansion?

8. How does Wheaton react when he sees Jordan for the first time during his interview with the FBI?

9. What are Wheaton's symptoms from his scleroderma?

10. What happens when Jordan lands in Washington, D.C. to meet with the FBI?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Contrast one scene in "Dead Sleep" that borders the line of believability with one scene that is completely believable. What is different in each? What does Iles do in one scene that makes it believable that he does not do (or that he does not do as well) in the scene that is less believable?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss at least three ways the novel would change if it were written from the perspective of John Kaiser or Dr. Lenz and at least three literary devices Iles could use while writing from these different perspectives.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss at least four ways "Dead Sleep" would be different if the protagonist were male.

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