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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What had Abby went to New York for?
(a) Book contract.
(b) To see a guy she met online.
(c) For her cousin's wedding.
(d) For a news story.

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

4. What does Lucy say in chapter fourteen when Scarpetta asks her to help find out who broke into the computer at the office?
(a) She wants to be paid upfront.
(b) She doesn't know how.
(c) She wants to go home.
(d) It's easy to break into computers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scarpetta say is the reason that the killer would want to get inside of her mind in the beginning of chapter thirteen?

2. When Scarpetta arrives at her office in chapter twelve what does the note from Amburgey say he expects to have an explanation about?

3. What does Scarpetta explain may be the reason that she has made mistakes on this case in chapter ten?

4. What does Abby say Henna's plans had been for Saturday?

5. What do Scarpetta and Benton say that the women had in common in chapter fifteen after Scarpetta explains about her conversation with Cecile's family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marino come in with in chapter thirteen?

2. What does Scarpetta tell Abby about her sister's death in chapter thirteen?

3. What is Abby able to tell Scarpetta and Marino about Henna in chapter eleven?

4. What does Scarpetta tell Abby is the real reason that she has asked Abby to come to talk to her at the ME's office in chapter thirteen?

5. Describe the scene at home in chapter fourteen when Scarpetta arrives home to Lucy.

6. In the end of chapter fifteen what is Scarpetta dreaming about?

7. In the beginning of chapter fourteen how does Scarpetta describe her sleep?

8. What is Scarpetta told when her mother calls in chapter nine?

9. What happens while Wingo is cleaning out the lab refrigerator in chapter nine?

10. What does Scarpetta and Lucy decide to do in the end of chapter sixteen?

(see the answer keys)

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