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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. Which of the following statements is not a reason Eve is able to escape the killer at the end of the book?

2. How does Redford initially explain the three hundred thousand dollars he gave Pandora?

3. What tip does Eve get about Pandora's drug source while getting her makeover?

4. Who finds the tattooed dancer Mavis claims to have watched after leaving Pandora's house the night of Pandora's murder?

5. Which suspect in Pandora's murder case does Feeney learn has had a meeting with a travel consultant about a trip for two to the Eden Colony?

Short Essay Questions

1. What clears Mavis of murder charges in Chapter 16?

2. Why does Eve agree to a makeover?

3. Why does Eve go to the media about Pandora's murder and why does she go to Nadine Furst?

4. What is Roarke's reaction to Casto when meeting him and how does his opinion of Casto compare to Eve's?

5. Why doesn't Eve charge Jerry with Pandora's murder once Jerry admits to hating Pandora and wanting her dead?

6. Why does Casto want Jerry charged with Pandora's murder?

7. How does Jerry become addicted to Immortality?

8. Describe how Eve interrogates the three suspects who were at Pandora's house on the night of Pandora's murder.

9. Why does Eve think she should be arrested for murder in Chapter 13 and what does Dr. Mira help her to realize about the killing that so distresses her?

10. Who does Casto believe is responsible for Pandora's murder and why doesn't Eve agree with his theory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the treatment of women in Immortal in Death. Do the men in the novel treat the women as equals or do they try to dominate them? Does the treatment of women in the futuristic world of the novel change any from what it is in the present day, or do women seem to be receiving the same treatment as they are now? Cite at least three examples from the text to support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

The idea of looking younger motivates characters in Immortal in Death to take the drug Immortality. Discuss the influence of the entertainment industry in which many of the characters of the novel are involved on their desire to look perpetually young and their willingness to take addictive and potentially fatal drugs in an attempt to do so. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

Although this novel is primarily a mystery, it contains a romance subplot and a subplot about the heroine's struggle to deal with the memories of the abuse she suffered as a child, and a subplot about the heroine's friendship with Mavis. Discuss how each of the subplots relate to the main plot and how they deepen the characterization of the heroine and depict her growth throughout the course of the novel. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.

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