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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who pulls up as Marino and Scarpetta leave Lori Peterson's house in chapter one?
(a) Bill Boltz, the Commonweath's attorney.
(b) A local radio personality.
(c) A representative for the governor.
(d) The mayor.

2. What kind of doctor was Lori studying to be?
(a) Heart surgeon.
(b) Oncologist.
(c) Plastic surgeon.
(d) Podiatrist.

3. What two magazines does Scarpetta notice on the table in Lori Peterson's home?
(a) Todays Doctor and Oncology Updates.
(b) Scientific American and the New England Journal of Medicine.
(c) National Geographic and Malpractice 'How Not To's'.
(d) People and Time.

4. What had Scarpetta done to Cagney's office when it became hers?
(a) Went through everything that she might need.
(b) Repainted.
(c) Put up new portraits.
(d) Emptied it.

5. What is found in Mrs. Peterson's dresser drawer that Scarpetta finds unusual?
(a) A unsigned note pressumably from a lover.
(b) A bottle of liquor.
(c) A red rose.
(d) A box of Trojans.

6. Where does Matt tell Marino he met Lori?
(a) A party.
(b) They worked together.
(c) He paid a friend to introduce them.
(d) In class.

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

8. What is on Mr. Peterson's disks regarding his literary dissertations.
(a) Virginia Wolfe and death.
(b) William Shakespear, homosexuality and the uselessness of women.
(c) Tennesse Williams, homosexuality and cannibalism.
(d) "How To Kill Your Wife & Get Away With It."

9. Whose facial reconstruction does Scarpetta have in her office?
(a) An unidentified boy.
(b) Marilyn Monroe.
(c) President Lincoln.
(d) A woman that drown saving her child.

10. 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?
(a) Naive.
(b) Undressed.
(c) Unprepared.
(d) Unshielded.

11. What does Marino say Mr. Peterson does that most people don't do when they find someone they love murdered?
(a) Talk on and on about it.
(b) Gave explicit details.
(c) Made lewd jokes.
(d) Got quiet.

12. What does Scarpetta say to Mrs. Peterson as she is leaving?
(a) That she will call him.
(b) That his wife didn't suffer.
(c) Nothing.
(d) That she is sorry for his loss.

13. Why does Scarpetta say she doesn't think Mr. Peterson is the killer when Marino asks her about it in chapter four?
(a) He has a solid alibi.
(b) He obviously loved his wife.
(c) Mr. Peterson doesn't profile right for the killer.
(d) He has kind eyes.

14. What does Mr. Peterson say he smelled when he walked into his house?
(a) A smell like something bitter or metalic.
(b) A sweet putrid smell.
(c) Like candy or fresh fruit.
(d) Something like body odor.

15. Who pulls in for dinner while Lucy and Scarpetta are making dinner?
(a) Tanner.
(b) Matt Peterson.
(c) Marino.
(d) Bill Boltz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marino say might be the cause of the substance found on Lori Peterson?

2. What does Marino say that Matt Peterson had done the day before?

3. What had they been able to find out about the glittery residue in chapter two?

4. Why does Boltz say he didn't warn Scarpetta about the meeting?

5. What does Scarpetta note about Lori Peterson's organs at the time of death?

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