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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. What procedure does Mary Allen question and nearly refuse to accept in Chapter 11?

2. What does Nina Voss tell Abby is the secret to a successful marriage?

3. Where is the first place Yakov takes a finally well Aleksei in Chapter 14?

4. What surprises Abby about what she finds in the Levi home in Chapter 16?

5. Why does Mark say he wants to buy a yacht in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mary Allen die? Who pronounces her death?

2. What story does Abby tell Katzka and Lundquist in Chapter 18? Do they believe her?

3. Why does Yakov dislike Nadiya?

4. How does Abby react when Detective Bernard Katzka comes to speak to her about Mary Allen? Why?

5. What do Abby and Vivien ask Dr. Ivan Tarasoff to do in order to help with their investigation into Nina Voss' heart donor in Chapter 16?

6. What does Abby ask Nina Voss to do in Chapter 18? Does she agree?

7. What happens to Yakov at the end of Chapter 19? What does this suggest about his chances of survival?

8. How does Abby gain access to medical records of heart transplant patients in Chapter 17? For what reason?

9. What really happens behind the blue door in Chapter 19?

10. Who are the passengers in the aft cabin as discussed in Chapter 14?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why are children routinely taken off the freight ship? Where are they going? What does the helicopter come for? What is behind the locked blue door? Why does Yakov want to go behind the blue door? How come Yakov panics when it is his turn to go behind the blue door? What happens to Aleksei when he goes behind the blue door? Why do the other children think the boys are disappearing? Why does no one question the activities taking place on the freight ship?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Victor Voss? Why does he attempt to buy a heart for his wife? How does his wife feel about this when she finds out? Why is Voss upset at Abby after a donor heart is given to Josh O'Day? What does Voss attempt to do to Abby in revenge? How does this impact her career? What does Abby learn about Voss that she wishes she could use against him? Why does she not use it against him? What ultimately happens to Voss' wife? For what reason?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the decision of Vivien and Abby to take the heart meant for Nina Voss to save Josh O'Day's life. What do they do? For what reason? Who performs the surgery? What might have happened if they had not gotten Josh a heart that day? What eventually happens to Josh? What happens to Nina Voss? Who should have gotten the heart? Who has the right to decide who gets an organ? What type of system is there that deals with this sort of decision making? Why did it not work in this case?

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