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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 does Harper do to create a makeshift bomb in the office?
(a) He fills a pvc tube with gun powder, using guitar wire and lighter fluid to prepare it.
(b) None of these.
(c) He loads a laser jet printer cartridge with gun powder, uses a wire from his guitar, and reprograms the keyboard so any key prompts the print command.
(d) He loads a laser jet printer cartridge with gun powder and places it by the door, ready to shoot it when necessary.

2. Why do Miles and Harper say that the person posing as Lilith was inconsistent?
(a) She asked the killer where he lived.
(b) She asked the killer how she could find him in the future.
(c) All of these.
(d) She asked the killer what his real name was.

3. What does Harper offer to make Drewe for dinner after their conversation about Erin?
(a) Steak.
(b) Homemade pizza.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Sandwiches.

4. What does Erin tell Harper about the secret they have kept together?
(a) She says they were stupid to think they could keep a secret of this magnitude.
(b) She wants him to tell Drewe.
(c) She plans to tell Patrick.
(d) All of these.

5. What were the bodies found in the study of Harper's home stabbed with?
(a) A Civil War sword from the office wall.
(b) A kitchen knife.
(c) A scalpel.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Harper answer when Drewe asks if he and Erin are having an affair?

2. Who contacts Harper via EROS, then turns the conversation over to Miles?

3. What do Harper and Drewe see in Erin's open grave?

4. Whose name does Harper mention in order to get released after only a short time under arrest?

5. What has the killer discovered about the gland he has been studying in his victims?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Baxter's information about the FBI having a suspect remind Harper of? Why?

2. Why does Berkmann believe that Harper will not take the recording he made to the cops?

3. What does Bob Anderson say to Harper at Erin's burial service? Why?

4. Why are detectives waiting for Harper when he arrives home from checking on Erin? How does Harper react?

5. What does Miles call to tell Harper as he cleans up the murder scene in his study? How does he react to the fact that Erin has been murdered?

6. How does Berkmann describe Kali? Why was she in Harper's house?

7. What happens as the FBI thinks the killer is approaching the safe house? As the reader, did you anticipate this happening? Why or why not?

8. What do Miles and Harper think of Dr. Lenz's ability to interact online with the killer as a woman?

9. What does Miles tell Harper about his online lover? Why?

10. What does Harper discover when he arrives home with Mayeux? How does he react?

(see the answer keys)

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