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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. At Siddon's crime scene, what part of her body is mutilated apart from her throat?
(a) Her nose.
(b) Her head.
(c) Her leg.
(d) Her breast.

2. Who gives Butler background on Margot's juvenile delinquency?
(a) Coffey.
(b) Cathery.
(c) Margot.
(d) Macklin.

3. Who discuss computer scans and Edith Candle's fortune?
(a) Kaplan and O'Connell.
(b) Markowitz and McCoy.
(c) Ortega and Pickering.
(d) Butler and Mallory.

4. Who puts his arm around Mallory at the funeral?
(a) Slope.
(b) Coffey.
(c) Butler.
(d) Kaplan.

5. Who is the police chief that arrives to talk to Coffey about Louis Markowitz?
(a) Butler.
(b) Slope.
(c) Blakely.
(d) Kaplan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls Henry Cathery for a loan?

2. What was Whitman most afraid of before her death?

3. Who has decided to raise Markowitz during the séance?

4. Who is walking through the East Village and just happens to look up when a concrete clock falls right beside her?

5. What area of New York City does O'Connell describe along with victims in the first two chapters?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Margot described in Chapter 5?

2. Why does Mallory run out screaming from the seance?

3. What are possible motives for Cathery to commit the murder?

4. How does Mallory act at the crime scene of her father?

5. How does Mallory gain access into the theater where Gaynor is?

6. How is Mallory described in the book?

7. Why is Mallory disconcerted when she meets Edith?

8. What is of significance to the pawnbroker about the jewelry brought in by the junkie?

9. How does Butler handle Mrs. Pickering request for help and her doubts about her mother's pet medium?

10. Why does Margot stab a man in the subway?

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