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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 evidence is Alec waiting for before he can be convinced that the police have the real killer?
(a) DNA evidence.
(b) Alec wants to see the alleged killer's house.
(c) Alec wants to see the alleged killer's car.
(d) Alec wants to see the items in the shoebox.

2. Regan realizes she's in love with Alec. When does she first realize it?
(a) The first time she saw him at the police station.
(b) When he ran into her on the street, smelling of sewage.
(c) The evening he talked to Kevin about his deadbeat mother.
(d) When they were in the coffee room at the police station.

3. What information does Gil have for Alec about Regan's brother, Walker?
(a) Walker is in town but nobody knows.
(b) Walker has had some car accidents.
(c) Walker has been married three times.
(d) Walker is a heavy drinker.

4. What does Alec think the country club looks like?
(a) An airport.
(b) One of Regan's hotels.
(c) A southern river boat.
(d) An overdone southern plantation.

5. Why are Regan, Sophie, and Cordie at the park where Haley Cross was murdered?
(a) The are walking/running in a race on the new running path.
(b) They are bringing flowers to the grave of Haley Cross.
(c) They are having a picnic.
(d) They are attending a memorial for Haley Cross.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Alec and Regan agree on before Alec leaves the hotel after their romantic evening?

2. What does Nina Gage do at the end of Chapter 51?

3. When the killer is chasing Regan in the park, what does he hear in the distance?

4. How does the reader know that the police did not catch the real killer?

5. As Regan is trying to get away from the killer, what does he grab?

Short Essay Questions

1. After making love in Chapter 35, Alec gets up to go to the bathroom. What does Regan think and why? How does this reaction play into Regan and her family dynamics?

2. After everyone returns to the hotel after the attack at the park, Alec keeps trying to hold Regan's hand and put his arm around her shoulder. Regan keeps moving away from Alec. Why? What are these two people thinking?

3. It is discovered that Eric Gage set up Peter Morris. How does Gage do it? What information does he have to find Peter Morris?

4. As Nina watches the news bulletin on TV she sees the body of Eric being loaded into the ambulance, but is unmoved. What is Nina waiting to hear or see, and why?

5. When Regan stops to tie her shoe and spots the killer in the park, he yells at her to run. Why does he do this?

6. After Morris is caught, Gil, Alec's old partner, is still snooping around. What does he discover that could mean that the police have arrested the wrong man?

7. After Regan and her brothers argue in Spencer's office there is an air of joking or kidding around afterward. What breaks the ice? Will it continue?

8. When Wincott tells the details of the murder of Haley, what bothers Regan the most? Why?

9. Where will Alec and Regan live when they move to Boston and what will Regan do for a living?

10. The morning after Alec and Regan's night together, Regan is called into Spencer's office and a discussion ensues. Regan is stronger and more forthright with her brothers. Why?

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