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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 first murder victim at the school missing?
(a) A backpack.
(b) School clothes.
(c) Lunch money.
(d) An arm.

2. Whose trail does the President easily shake when he sneaks out of the White House?
(a) Jill.
(b) The Secret Service.
(c) Jack.
(d) The FBI.

3. Which media company receives a videotape depicting a murder?
(a) NBC.
(b) CBS.
(c) CNN.
(d) ABC.

4. Where is Natalie Sheehan killed?
(a) At the Waldorf Astoria.
(b) At the Jefferson Hotel.
(c) At the school.
(d) In her office.

5. What does the little girl's killer say he hates in Chapter 1?
(a) Carousels.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Cotton candy.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Jack and Jill select their next victim?

2. What is unusual to see in Cross' neighborhood?

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

4. Who pushes Cross at the crime seen where Natalie Sheehan was killed?

5. Who thinks the Truth School killer has some distinctive feature?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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. What troubles the major investigator in this novel about the Truth School case?

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. What clue is intentionally left behind at the first Jack and Jill murder scene, and what role does it seem to play in the case?

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

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