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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. When Alec and Regan are on the airplane together, where are they going?

2. What does Aiden say in the hall to Alec?

3. When Alec hears the gunshots in the park, who pleads with him not to go?

4. Why does Regan need to circulate and talk to everyone at the hospital charity event?

5. Why is Regan concerned that Lewis will take policemen off her case?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the end, the reader is clear as to why Eric Gage wanted to kill Regan, but will Regan ever be sure? Will she ever know the complete story? Why or why not?

2. Although Alec is running through the park to save Regan, Regan actually ends up saving Alec. How does this unusual twist affect the story?

3. 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?

4. Why does the killer want to prolong Regan's death? Why does he want her to suffer?

5. At the hospital fundraiser, Alec makes the connection and figures out who Sophie Rose's father is. Who is Sophie's father and why does this relationship make Alec uncomfortable?

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

7. When Alec and Regan are flying to Boston for Regan to meet Alec's family, why does she tell him about her first day at kindergarten and the bully and the barrettes?

8. At he hospital fundraiser, how do Cordie and Sophie intercept and keep the peace with Regan and her brothers? Do you think it is something they do all the time?

9. When it is revealed for the first time who the "beast" is, and how does that change the story?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is there a feeling of joking and love after the blow up in Spencer's office? What is Regan's ultimatum? Why does it finally work? What does Regan do differently in this discussion with her brothers?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Regan's relationship with her brothers and how it changes throughout the story. What does the killer chasing Regan have to do with her change in her behavior toward her brothers? Do her circumstances make a difference or are her changes more ties to Alec and the relationship with him?

Essay Topic 3

The uniformed cop who botched the drug sting in the beginning of the story is a character throughout the book. Why does the author add this character? What does this character help define in Alec?

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