View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alex calls _____________ and arranges to trade cars for the day.
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her assistant.
(d) Her husband.

2. Alex Burnet is in the middle of the biggest case of her career, so she does not ask many questions when her dad announces he is going out of town for how long?
(a) Permanently.
(b) A few weeks.
(c) A few months.
(d) A few days.

3. Who is Dolly?
(a) Vasco's mother.
(b) Rick's secretary.
(c) Vasco's assistant.
(d) Rick's wife.

4. Josh's mother calls him and tells him the son of her friend on whom he used the maturity gene has _____________.
(a) Started making monkey-like noises.
(b) Grown tons of hair.
(c) Died.
(d) Vanished.

5. The person who gained access to the cell line used whose access codes?
(a) Brad's.
(b) Tom's
(c) Charlie's.
(d) Rick's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dave get out of Billy's reach?

2. The lawyer advises Rick to hire a bounty hunter to have the cells forcibly taken from either Alex Burnet or whom?

3. Where is Georgia's husband when Georgia finds the bruise on their daughter?

4. Brad Gordon is at an amusement park admiring some young teenagers when a man asks him to step out of line for the ________________.

5. Gerard knows _______________________ so Mrs. Bond hopes she might hear from him again some day.

Short Essay Questions

1. Rick Diehl's lawyers tell him that he owns the Burnet cell line, therefore he has a right to take it from any source. Since Frank Burnet's children and grandchildren have the same cells, they technically are in possession of stolen property. Do you agree with that assessment?

2. If you were Lynn Kendall, Henry's wife, would you put up with Henry's bringing the chimpanzee hybrid home?

3. How is Brad Gordon's situation worsened, yet again, in this section of the book?

4. In Paris, Gail Bond stops spending the night at her own apartment, giving her husband the opportunity to make Gerard, their transgenic bird, disappear. Gail knows her husband is behind the disappearance due to his hatred of the bird, but cannot prove it. What does that say about Gail as a person?

5. How and why do Henry and Lynn's attitudes about having Dave in their home seem to reverse in this section?

6. What was Brad Gordon's final fate in the book and how did it affect another key character?

7. Explain the interactions between Stan Milgram and Gerard in this section and Stan's unusual reaction to Gerard.

8. Explain how Alex and her son escaped from Vasco.

9. Describe how Vasco Borden, the bounty hunter mentioned at the beginning of the book, is brought back in this section of the book.

10. Explain what is learned about Dr. Bellarmino and his family in this section, as well as your opinion on the matter.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,225 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample