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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Brennan afraid to find in the basement in Chapter 3?
(a) Baby bones.
(b) A family friend.
(c) Drugs.
(d) The boogeyman.

2. What was the reason given for Brennan being attacked at the end of Chapter 11?
(a) Drugs.
(b) An attempted murder.
(c) A mugging.
(d) A warning.

3. What is unusual about the murder of Carole Comptois?
(a) She was thrown in the lake.
(b) She was attacked by dogs.
(c) Her blood was drained through her neck.
(d) Her heart was removed.

4. How does Brennan determine the age of the infant victims?
(a) She counts the bones in their hands.
(b) She looks for teeth.
(c) She finds a journal the mother wrote.
(d) She finds a birth certificate.

5. According to the woman in Chapter 18 who lets Brennan, Ryan, and Baker into the main house, why is it doubtful that phone calls were made from St-Jovite to their group?
(a) They have restrictions for telephone use.
(b) They never had a phone.
(c) The phone is disconnected.
(d) They believe phones are evil.

6. Why do the police not help Sister Julienne's sister?
(a) They do not believe her story.
(b) It is policy to wait 48 hours.
(c) She has not contacted them yet.
(d) They know something she does not and cannot reveal their sources.

7. Why do people stay away from the swamp on Murtry Island?
(a) It is used for drug trafficking.
(b) Alice, the crocodile, just had babies.
(c) The bugs are overwhelming.
(d) It smells like something rotting.

8. In a conversation with the parents of the murder victims from St-Jovite, Ryan learns that a man came to see the parents of the twins shortly after they were born. What does the grandfather compare him to?
(a) A skunk.
(b) The terminator.
(c) A gorilla.
(d) An alien.

9. In Chapter 9, what does Jeannotte give Brennan?
(a) Elisabeth's journals.
(b) Journals written by Elisabeth's uncle.
(c) Elisabeth's birth certificate.
(d) History books about the Nicolet family.

10. What is the setting for Chapter 2?
(a) A burnt down hospital.
(b) A burnt down house.
(c) A crumbling convent.
(d) A dark graveyard.

11. What type of work does Brennan do?
(a) Forensics.
(b) Police.
(c) Medical.
(d) Education.

12. In Chapter 14, who talks Brennan into helping Ryan?
(a) Ryan.
(b) LaManche.
(c) Katy.
(d) Harry.

13. What does Brennan's sister want to study?
(a) Hot air ballooning.
(b) Forensics.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Holistic counseling.

14. Why are people not allowed on Murtry Island without Sam's approval?
(a) People may give the monkey's tuberculosis.
(b) The military conducts top secret tests on the island.
(c) Sam does not like people.
(d) Sam does not want the island to become part of drug trafficking.

15. Why are the detectives having difficulty finding out who lived in the house that burned down?
(a) The landlord lives in Europe.
(b) They were not liked by the neighbors.
(c) It had been abandoned for years.
(d) The people who died were trespassers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wat does the dialogue between Brennan and Katy in Chapter 17 tell the reader?

2. Why does Brennan doubt that the two bodies from Murtry Island have anything to do with drugs?

3. Where did Brennan's sister take her first classes?

4. What kind of school did Harry and Brennan attend as children?

5. Where does Brennan always work in the summer?

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