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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Anna turn around while she and her fiancé are making love?

2. What does Casanova have in the wicker basket?

3. Why can't Casanova sleep?

4. What is Casanova holding when all of the women meet him in the living room?

5. What does Kate agree to do while accompanied by Detective Ruskin and Sikes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What secret does Cross share with Kate and how does Kate respond?

2. What impresses Naomi about Kate and what does she finally answer Kate's pleas for information?

3. Describe the details that Kate shares with Cross to help him with the psychological profile.

4. Describe where Kate lives and what she does when she arrives home after her Saturday night karate class.

5. Describe how Kate feels and what she goes through when she wakes up?

6. What is the surprise that Casanova has planned for the girls and what does he tell Naomi afterward?

7. When Kate wakes up after the drug, what does she notice about the room she is now located in?

8. What information does Mary Ellen share with Cross when he pays her a visit in his investigation into his missing niece?

9. What is Sampson's theory about the murders that he shares with Cross?

10. What does Sampson offer to do for Marcus and what does the reader learn about Marcus' family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Within the plot of murder, there is a subplot of a mini romance between Cross and Kate. Do you believe this was a believable sub context? Why or why not? Do you think this should have been increased within the novel?

Essay Topic 2

In what ways were Cross' methods unique? What connections did Cross' methods help investigators make that perhaps more traditional methods might not have made? Do you think Cross' methods were special? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate the method of the killers to plant the strategic photo of Dr. Sachs within Rudolph's secret room. Why was Cross the only one to consider that this was odd?

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