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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who pushes the police chief against the wall at the crime scene where Natalie Sheehan was killed?
(a) Pittman.
(b) Cross.
(c) A waiter.
(d) An unknown man.

2. Who pushes Cross at the crime seen where Natalie Sheehan was killed?
(a) An unknown man.
(b) The commissioner.
(c) Pittman.
(d) Johnson.

3. What is Cross' official job?
(a) Secret Service protection.
(b) Homicide investigator.
(c) Patrol officer.
(d) Fingerprint expert.

4. Who thinks the Truth School killer has some distinctive feature?
(a) Alex.
(b) Jack.
(c) Patterson.
(d) John.

5. Which case is Cross instructed to focus on after the death of the chased suspect?
(a) The death of the senator.
(b) The death of an unknown woman.
(c) The death of the little girl.
(d) The death of the chased suspect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the little girl killed in Chapter 1?

2. Who is the celebrity speaker at a party in which Jack and Jill plan to enact their second murder?

3. Which police department employs Cross?

4. What is the President's name?

5. Where is the little girl's body left after she is murdered in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Jack and Jill, what is their motive? What is similar about the first two Jack and Jill victims?

2. Why aren't the Truth School killings a priority for the law enforcement agency? What does this seem to say about the police department?

3. How do Jack and Jill attack their first victim, and why is this attack important?

4. What is the name of the federal agent who is always first on the scene of the Jack and Jill murder scenes? Why does the investigator immediately rule this agent out as a suspect?

5. What is the investigator's first impression of the President? How does his meeting with the President affect his investigation of the school killings?

6. Who watches the President sneak out of the White House, and why is it so dangerous?

7. Is the first murder by the Truth School killer as calculated as the first Jack and Jill murder? Why or why not?

8. Which news media company receives a taped version of Jack and Jill's first murder? What is important about the tape?

9. How does Chop-it-off-Charlie die, and what do police superiors decide due to his death?

10. Who is the celebrity speaker at a function where Jack and Jill get their second victim? Could this speaker have been the second victim? Why or why not?

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