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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) Quiting her job.
(c) Going on vacation.
(d) Selling her house.

2. What does Lucy tell Scarpetta she should stop doing?
(a) Eating so much.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Working.

3. What does Scarpetta explain may be the reason that she has made mistakes on this case in chapter ten?
(a) She has been worried about Lucy.
(b) She is taking a new drug.
(c) She has become too involved.
(d) She is exhausted.

4. 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) How Lucy was.
(d) If Boltz was rough in bed.

5. Who is Henna Yarborough's roommate?
(a) Abby Turnbull.
(b) Henna's cousin.
(c) The police chief's daughter.
(d) Marino's ex-wife.

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

7. 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 getting too close to him.
(b) She was his link to his vicitims.
(c) She had fabulously flowing hair.
(d) She was going to be his next victim.

8. What does Spiro say is the reason that some people kill?
(a) Because they are wackos.
(b) To feel alive.
(c) To cleans themselves.
(d) They enjoy it.

9. What was the killer doing in Boston years earlier when similar murders had happened there?
(a) Acting as a magician for birthday parties.
(b) Delivering chickens to a plant in Boston.
(c) Working as a crossing guard.
(d) Delivering flowers.

10. What does Lucy say to Scarpetta while they are eating dinner in chapter nine?
(a) I want to go home.
(b) You look sick.
(c) You don't trust me.
(d) I wish you were my mother.

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

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

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 medication that is bought over the counter.
(c) They don't find anything.
(d) A foot powder used by several people in the ME's office.

14. Who does Scarpetta call to ask about the old backed up data?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Wingo.
(c) Betty.
(d) Marino.

15. Lucy keeps telling Scarpetta that it will be nice when what happens in chapter ten?
(a) When a new computer game comes out.
(b) When Bill and Scarpetta get married.
(c) When the killer is caught.
(d) When she can come and stay with Scarpetta again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marino say was the last thing the killer said after Marino had shot him?

2. What does Lucy change the password to in chapter fourteen?

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

4. What does Scarpetta say she sometimes forgets to take off before she leaves the building?

5. What does Scarpetta say she wants the killer to be put through when she talks to Dr. Sprio?

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