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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. How does Casanova feel since Sachs has been arrested?

2. What news does Craig track down Cross to share?

3. What does Sampson tell Cross when he comes to the back door at the end of the novel?

4. What decision do Cross and Kate come to about their relationship?

5. What does Naomi see when she gets into the living room with the other girls?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Cross and Kate do and what impresses Cross that Kate has done for the occasion?

2. Why does Rudolph go after Kate?

3. What is Kate's condition and how does Cross describe his relationship to Kate to his friend Sampson?

4. Describe Kate's recovery at this point in the novel.

5. Who is Dr. Freed and what is his purpose within the plot of the story?

6. How does Cross describe what he saw with he sneaked up and observed Rudolph in the cabin and what does Rudolph do when he comes out of the cabin?

7. What does Craig tell Cross after they have uncovered the twenty-third victim in the mass grave?

8. Describe the character who is accused of being the killer, Sachs.

9. What does Cross learn about Sachs and how does he learn this information?

10. What does Cross see as he examines Rudolph's apartment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the idea of staking out used by both the police and the killers within this novel? Which group do you believe does it more effectively? Why?

Essay Topic 2

What role do you believe racism plays in this novel as a theme? Do you feel it is appropriately represented? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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