View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Mavis use in Chapter 7 to describe a jail cell?

2. What mistake has Eve's superior officer Commander Whitney made in the past while working a case with Eve?

3. What is Eve's relationship to Boomer, the man whose corpse she views at the police station in Chapter 2?

4. What does Eve find in Boomer's room in the same place where she finds the blue powder?

5. Which of the following statements does not describe Boomer's room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Eve and her fiance Roarke have in common?

2. What is the function of the droid Eve encounters at Boomer's flophouse at the beginning of Chapter 3?

3. What physical evidence implicates Mavis in Pandora's murder and makes it necessary for Eve to arrest her friend?

4. What is the history of Roarke's relationship with Summerset?

5. Why is Mavis calm at breakfast in Chapter 8 despite the fact that a murder charge is hanging over her head?

6. Why does Mavis call Eve in a panic in the middle of the night at the beginning of Chapter 4?

7. What testimony does Leonardo give about the night of Pandora's murder?

8. Explain how intuition affects Eve's investigation of murder cases.

9. Describe Eve's relationship with Roarke.

10. What conflict does Eve experience regarding Mavis while investigating Pandora's murder?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several murders and attempted murders occur in the novel. Discuss the theme of murder in the novel. What are the motivations for the murders and attempted murders? What theme(s) or lesson(s) do you think the author is trying to convey through these incidents? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Eve feels intuitively during the novel that certain characters are innocent and that certain characters can't be trusted yet her intuition isn't something she can prove in a court of law. She needs physical evidence to prove the guilt or innocence of the suspects in the murder cases she investigates. Discuss the role of intuition and the role of science in Eve's homicide investigations. How do the two methods of approaching a case sometimes conflict with each other and how do they sometimes complement each other? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the characters of Pandora, Mavis, and Dr. Mira from Immortal in death. Cite at least three examples from the text to support your arguments.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,008 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample