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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. What is the real name of the character who actively fulfills the role of Jill in the murders?
(a) Sarah Green.
(b) Sara Nana.
(c) Sarah Johnson.
(d) Sara Rosen.

2. What happens while Cross and his partner are chasing their suspect on one side of town?
(a) The department is planning to fire them.
(b) Cross loses a shoe.
(c) The real killer makes another attempt across town.
(d) A killer ransacks Cross' house.

3. What White House meeting does Cross attend?
(a) The Presidential Security Organization.
(b) The Jack and Jill Task Force.
(c) The Chief of Staff meeting.
(d) The FBI.

4. What is unusual to see in Cross' neighborhood?
(a) A trash can.
(b) Candy vendors.
(c) A balloon.
(d) A white face.

5. To whom does Cross speak regarding the previously unheard rumor he receives regarding the school killings?
(a) His partner.
(b) The President.
(c) The FBI.
(d) The principal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which child awakens Cross in Chapter 15?

2. How is a little girl lured into talking with a stranger in Chapter 1?

3. Which installment in Patterson's Alex Cross series is this book?

4. What is Cross' official job?

5. Who do Cross and his partner chase across a courtyard as they investigate the school killings?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which law enforcement agency employs the major investigator in this novel? Is he well-liked by his supervisor?

2. What is unusual about Kevin Hawkins' first attack in the story? How does it foreshadow events in the book?

3. Who assigns the major investigator in this book to the Jack and Jill case, and why?

4. Who foils a kidnapping attempt at an area mall, and what is ironic about the attempt?

5. Who is the first Jack and Jill victim in this novel, and why is the first victim so important?

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

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

8. What actually kills the victim in Kevin Hawkins' first attack? What does this foreshadow?

9. What information does the investigator learn at his first White House task force meeting that is key to his investigation?

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

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