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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lucy say that the System/Manager is?
(a) Nothing she has ever used before.
(b) A nifty application.
(c) God.
(d) Beyond her comprehension.

3. In chapter fifteen what does Scarpetta do before she gets into bed?
(a) Puts the .38 under her pillow.
(b) Goes in to check on Lucy.
(c) Calls Boltz.
(d) Calls Benton.

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

5. How did the killer get up to Henna's window?
(a) Standing on a trash can.
(b) She lived on the first floor.
(c) Rusty fire escape ladder.
(d) The elevator.

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

7. 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?
(a) Oh no.
(b) What an ass.
(c) Good God.
(d) Heaven help us.

8. What is substance is found on the PERK test card when they are checking to see whose finger prints are on it?
(a) The same glittery residue.
(b) Perfume.
(c) Lipstick.
(d) Blood.

9. What does Lucy tell Scarpetta to look at to see if the computer information has been changed?
(a) Take the computer to the cops.
(b) Look in a skeleton file.
(c) Old back up data.
(d) Ask the other people in the office.

10. Who does Abby go after since she can't touch Bill and Abby says will most likely not have a job when Scarpetta returns from her vacation with Lucy?
(a) Wingo.
(b) Marino.
(c) Tanner.
(d) Amburgey.

11. What does Marino say was the last thing the killer said after Marino had shot him?
(a) Oh, shit.
(b) I'm not ready.
(c) Damn it all.
(d) God forgive me.

12. What does Lucy change the password to in chapter fourteen?
(a) Bunny.
(b) Jumble.
(c) .38.
(d) Dummie.

13. Why does Marino suggest that Bill Boltz wife would take her own life?
(a) She found out about an affair.
(b) To punish Bill.
(c) She found out he was murdering women.
(d) Because she had an overdue library book.

14. What does Scarpetta find when she calls Bill Boltz's office?
(a) He has asked that Scarpetta not call him.
(b) He is home sick.
(c) He has gone out to lunch with Amburgey.
(d) He has gone on vacation.

15. Who calls in the end of chapter nine while Scarpetta and Lucy are sitting at the table?
(a) Lucy's mother.
(b) Boltz.
(c) Scarpetta's mother.
(d) Marino.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Abby Turnbull screaming at when she arrives in chapter eleven?

3. What is Scarpetta briefly worried that Wingo may be being tested for?

4. What does Scarpetta admit to Dr. Spiro Fortosis in chapter twelve?

5. What does Scarpetta's mother call to say?

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