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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Scarpetta say the morgue smells like?
(a) Harsh sanitizers and cheap air fresheners.
(b) Metallic smell of blood.
(c) Stale stench of death.
(d) Suffering and loss.

2. Who does Betty say is going to hand deliver the samples from the last two cases to Dr. Glassman?
(a) Police Chief.
(b) Marino.
(c) Benton.
(d) Bo Friend.

3. What does Marino say happened when they started questioning Mr. Peterson?
(a) He refused to answer any questions.
(b) His personality completely changed.
(c) He admitted he hated his wife.
(d) He kept changing his story.

4. What does Scarpetta learn happened at the Peterson the night that Lori was killed?
(a) Lori Peterson was involved in an altercation.
(b) Matt Peterson was home and had a fight with a neighbor.
(c) Someone called 911 from her house.
(d) A fire alarm went off.

5. What had Scarpetta promised to do with Lucy that day?
(a) Take her birthday shopping.
(b) Take her to Fun City.
(c) Go to Monticello.
(d) Go to the zoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a speculation from Marino in chapter eight for the reason that the killer used a knife rather than a gun?

2. What does Marino say as Scarpetta gets into her car to leave the Peterson's home in chapter one?

3. What does Scarpetta say is the cruelest form of punishments?

4. Who found Lori Peterson's body?

5. What does Scarpetta say she feels like she will be doing if she goes into Dr. Alvin Amburgey's office without a notepad or something of that nature?

(see the answer key)

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