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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. Why do Lenz and Kaiser plan to be more aggressive in their interview with Leon Gaines?

2. What major event created Wheaton's separate personality?

3. Whose face does Jordan see over her as she loses consciousness?

4. How could Thalia's childhood be described?

5. After receiving the disturbing phone call, what does Wheaton tell Jordan he's injecting into her intravenously?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Wheaton kidnap Jordan?

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

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

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

6. What does Wheaton tell Jordan about her sister?

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

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

9. From where does Kaiser recognize the woman in the computer-enhanced images?

10. How does Gaines escape his FBI surveillance?

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

Greg Iles is a rare author who has had commercial success across multiple genres. In an essay, discuss the three greatest strengths of Iles as an author and how each of these strengths can transfer across genres in a commercially successful way.

Essay Topic 3

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

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