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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 President's name?
(a) Abraham Thomas.
(b) George Byrnes.
(c) Thomas Byrnes.
(d) William J. Byrnes.

2. Who has always been first on the scene of the Jack and Jill murders?
(a) The principal.
(b) Jay Grayer.
(c) The President.
(d) Cross.

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

4. After observing Cross and his children, who is agitated that Cross is such a good father?
(a) The police commissioner.
(b) Cross' wife.
(c) The police chief.
(d) The Truth School killer.

5. What words best describe Cross' feelings about the Jack and Jill murders?
(a) Passionate and planned.
(b) Hurried and unprofessional.
(c) Whimsical and flighty.
(d) Cold and calculated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cross' official job?

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

3. What warning do police receive from the videotaped murder?

4. Who has a plan that seems to involve the President?

5. Which child awakens Cross in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the second victim of the Truth School killer, and what does his death say about the killer?

2. Who is the major investigator in Jack and Jill? How is he important to Patterson's series?

3. What element is missing from the Jack and Jill murders that the investigator has seen in other serial killings? What leads the investigator to this conclusion?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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