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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. After the attack in the parking garage, what do Regan, Sophie, and Cordie do at the end of the evening?
(a) They get into a conversation with Dr. Shields and go to dinner with him.
(b) They go out to dinner and end up at Regan's hotel suite for drinks.
(c) They go back to Regan's suite at the hotel and order room service.
(d) They spend the evening waiting for the police and never get to eat dinner.

2. What does Alec have Regan write on a notepad when they get to the station and are sitting in the coffee room?
(a) The seven dwarfs.
(b) The people she almost wrote on the murder list, but decided not to.
(c) The murder list and the to-do list.
(d) The names of Dr. Shields' bodyguards.

3. What happens on Sophie's date with Dr. Shields?
(a) Sophie and Dr. Shields had a nice dinner.
(b) Sophie and Dr. Shields had a heated argument.
(c) Sophie and Dr. Shields went to a movie.
(d) Dr. Shields did not show up.

4. After Alec talks to Wincott at the police station, what does his boss, Lewis, assign Alec to do for the next three weeks?
(a) To try to get more cases.
(b) To be Regans' bodyguard.
(c) To get in another dumpster for a drug bust.
(d) To do all of Wincott's typing.

5. Why is Sweeney being investigated by Internal Affairs?
(a) He is planning to kill his wife.
(b) He is drunk on the job a lot.
(c) He was paid to look the other way while a drug dealer was murdered.
(d) He is plotting to kill Lt. Lewis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the photo on Regan's email originate from?

2. How does the killer murder his victim?

3. Who creates the paintings that are sold at the charity event?

4. What is Regan's job?

5. How does Mary Coolidge meet Dr. Lawrence Shields?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what each girl (Regan, Sophie, and Cordie) wrote on their "murder lists." What does this tell the reader? What danger is Regan in over this list?

2. What is the significance of Aiden buying Regan a BMW?

3. In Chapter 18, Regan recalls the events of the evening after the seminar and the man chasing her in the garage for Alec. After the man chased Regan in the garage, Regan looked at his face. Regan watched his expression change. What is the man's expression, how does it change, and what does it mean? What does the reader know that Regan doesn't know about this man's personal life? How does this information connect to Regan falling down?

4. Who is Dr. Lawrence Shields and what is his relationship with Mary Coolidge?

5. When the killer arrives home after chasing Regan in the garage, he feels that he has failed, but knows that the "beast" would never let him get caught. Discuss the "beast" as if it were a separate character, as the killer believes. What powers does the "beast" have over the killer?

6. What does the killer do when he returns home from murdering the runner in the park?

7. Sophie tells the other women that Dr. Shields left the island. Why are Sophie and Cordie going to stay after he already left?

8. Why does the picture found on Regan's computer scare her enough to call the police? Does she, at any time, think it is a fake? Why or why not?

9. During the drug bust in Chapter 6, a uniformed officer appears on the scene to give the twin drug dealers a parking ticket. What happens in the warehouse? What do you think will happen to the officer? Will he be in trouble for this action? Why?

10. When Regan tells Alec that the murder list is hers, what is his reaction and why?

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