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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. How does Gaines react when Jordan enters during his interview with Kaiser and Lenz?

2. Jordan and Kaiser discover the killings first started happening in ____________.

3. Where does Wheaton tell Glass all of his victims are buried?

4. Where are Kaiser and Jordan when the phone interrupts them being intimate?

5. Who somehow figures out that Kaiser is with Jordan at her hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gaines do to his girlfriend after he escapes his FBI surveillance?

2. What does Gaines claim as he is holding people hostage?

3. What does Juan confess to the investigators about Smith and Wheaton?

4. What does Jordan realize about Wheaton when she wakes up in the bathtub?

5. What does Wendy do when she realizes that there is a man with a gun during her walk with Jordan?

6. Who is Conrad Hoffman?

7. How does Jordan feel about Laveau while she is talking to her about the murders?

8. What photo does Kaiser find in the gunman's apartment?

9. What happens with Gaines's girlfriend as Lenz and Kaiser are questioning Gaines for the first time?

10. Why does Jordan move the ice cooler closer to her tub at Wheaton's?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the novel's tone and discuss three literary devices that Iles uses to create this tone.

Essay Topic 2

In an essay, discuss what function Jordan's mother serves in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Present an argument that discusses whether or not Jordan's ability to withstand the constant valium IV drip is believable or not. Make sure to list at least three reasons. Use direct evidence from the text to support your position.

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