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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Scarpetta thinking of doing after the murderer is killed in her bedroom?
(a) Changing her room to the guest room.
(b) Selling her house.
(c) Going on vacation.
(d) Quiting her job.

2. What does Scarpetta tell her mother when her mother asks her about how bad she sounds?
(a) That she has been sick.
(b) That it is none of her business.
(c) That she is just fine.
(d) That she is tired.

3. What does Marino suggest when the extra evidence is found unlabeled in the lab refrigerator at the ME's office?
(a) That someone else put it there.
(b) That they throw them away and keep quiet.
(c) That they test it against Matt Peterson.
(d) That Scarpetta is slipping.

4. What does Wingo say he gathered for evidence from Amburgey?
(a) Used toilet paper.
(b) Cigarette butt.
(c) Hair brush.
(d) Bottled water.

5. What does Marino say when he hands the tapes to Scarpetta in chapter fifteen?
(a) Have fun.
(b) Party hardy.
(c) Good luck.
(d) Merry Christmas.

6. How many names are on the list for Borawash in Richmond?
(a) Seven.
(b) A hundred and thirty.
(c) Seventy-three.
(d) Twenty-two

7. What does Lucy tell Scarpetta to hurt her while they are fighting at the table?
(a) I wish you were dead.
(b) I want to go home.
(c) I hate you.
(d) I crapped in your bed.

8. Who does Scarpetta call in the beginning of chapter thirteen?
(a) Abby Turnbull
(b) Marino.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Boltz.

9. What does the victim, Henna Yarborough, do for a living as described in chapter eleven?
(a) Business analyst.
(b) Musician.
(c) Teaches Journalism.
(d) Yoga instructor.

10. What does Scarpetta say is the reason that the killer would want to get inside of her mind in the beginning of chapter thirteen?
(a) She was his link to his vicitims.
(b) She was going to be his next victim.
(c) She was getting too close to him.
(d) She had fabulously flowing hair.

11. When Scarpetta arrives at her office in chapter twelve what does the note from Amburgey say he expects to have an explanation about?
(a) The Times release.
(b) Bill Boltz.
(c) Abby Turnbull's information.
(d) Her computer.

12. What does Marino ask Scarpetta that makes her angry in chapter twelve?
(a) If she had been abused as a child.
(b) If Boltz had ever raped her.
(c) If Boltz was rough in bed.
(d) How Lucy was.

13. What substance do they test in chapter ten that gives off the same glittery shine when exposed to the laser as the substance found on the murder victims?
(a) A pink granular soap used in the ME's offices.
(b) A foot powder used by several people in the ME's office.
(c) A medication that is bought over the counter.
(d) They don't find anything.

14. What does the young woman who was hit by the car have in her wallet?
(a) A fortune from a cookie.
(b) A reciept for a wedding license.
(c) An ultrasound.
(d) A parking ticket.

15. What does Scarpetta say she sometimes forgets to take off before she leaves the building?
(a) Her shoe covers.
(b) Her gloves.
(c) Her lab coat.
(d) Her hair net.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Andy do for a living?

2. What does Scarpetta tell Wingo is the reason that the killer continues to hurt women?

3. In chapter ten who is Scarpetta thinking of and realizing they would have had time to plant the contaminated PERK test in the lab refrigerator?

4. What does Abby say when she learns that it may have been her article that the person got the tan belt piece of information from?

5. What does Spiro say is the reason that some people kill?

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