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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 videotapes the murder of Jack and Jill's first victim?
(a) Jack.
(b) Jill.
(c) Toby.
(d) Sam.

2. What is Natalie Sheehan's job?
(a) Police officer.
(b) TV reporter.
(c) Newspaper reporter.
(d) Magazine editor.

3. Who initially saves Kevin Hawkins' first target?
(a) Another drug dealer.
(b) Bodyguards.
(c) A witness.
(d) The police.

4. Who is watching the President as he sneaks out of the White House to meet a lover?
(a) The Secret Service.
(b) Jill.
(c) The Truth School killer.
(d) Cross.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invites Cross to the White House?

2. What White House meeting does Cross attend?

3. Who gives Cross a tip about the school killer that he has never heard rumor of previously?

4. Why is there concern when the President sneaks out of the White House?

5. Who sends the videotaped murder to the media company?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Truth School killer see that makes him angry with the major investigator in this book, and what does it tell the reader early in the story?

2. Why does the investigator work the Truth School murder case in his spare time? Who encourages him to do so?

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

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

5. Why is the investigator certain he will be fired when he arrives on the scene of the second Jack and Jill murder? What does the incident show the reader about his relationship with his boss?

6. What does the main investigator in this book like about the school principal? How does she bridge the gap between rich and poor?

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

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

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

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

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