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

2. What does Smith invite Jordan to do before she leaves after questioning him for the first time?

3. On what campus is Gaines holding hostages?

4. Where does Jordan encourage Kaiser to rest once she takes him home?

5. What does Jordan confess to Kaiser about her desire to have a family?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Wheaton react the way he does when Jordan plunges him into the cold water?

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

4. 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?

5. How does Gaines escape his FBI surveillance?

6. How do Jordan, Kaiser, Baxter, and Bowles feel about how the questioning of their four suspects went?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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