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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. From where does Frank Smith get his money?

2. How does Kaiser let Jordan know that he's on the way over to her hotel room?

3. How does the team learn about Wheaton's spending the night at Smith's house sometimes?

4. Why does Jordan want to save the gunman?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gaines escape his FBI surveillance?

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

3. How does the FBI team react to Jordan's theory that the killer has Multiple Personality Disorder?

4. How does Jordan react to the news that the victim whose body has been found was raped?

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

6. Why does Glass claim to know who Jordan is when she walks in during his interview with Frank and Lenz?

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

8. What does Smith confess to Jordan about why he and Wheaton have heated arguments?

9. What are Gaines and his girlfriend doing as Lenz and Kaiser prepare to question him for the first time?

10. How does Laveau disappear?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss at least three literary devices Iles uses within the first three chapters to help the reader better understand Jordan as both a character and the protagonist. Make sure to use examples and/or quotations from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 2

Describe at least four ways that the novel is either negatively or positively changed by having such detailed romantic scenes between Jordan and John. Use specific examples from the text to support your argument.

Essay Topic 3

Describe at least four negative aspects of having a protagonist as strong and stubborn as Jordan Glass. Make sure to use evidence from the novel to support your position.

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