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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 many students does Gaines take hostage in the room with him?

2. Where does Kaiser have a house?

3. Where did the serial killer first start killing people?

4. How does Wendy end up dying?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Wheaton tell Jordan about her sister?

3. What kind of relationship did Wheaton have with his mother?

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

5. What is surprising to Jordan about Kaiser's house?

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

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

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

9. What do Kaiser and Lenz threaten to do to Gaines in order to make him talk to them when they first approach him as a suspect?

10. Who is Conrad Hoffman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast two male characters from "Dead Sleep." Possible characters include Kaiser and Lenz or Wheaton and de Becque.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why Iles chooses to have no strong example of a loving, healthy marriage for any of the characters in "Dead Sleep."

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