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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scarpetta buy for Lucy while she is out getting lunch in chapter five?

2. What is found in Mrs. Peterson's dresser drawer that Scarpetta finds unusual?

3. What does Scarpetta say is a prerequisite of a person her sister is willing to date?

4. Who is Scarpetta thinking about in the beginning of chapter six as a person that might be responsible for breaking into the computer system to look for Lori Peterson's information?

5. What does Scarpetta learn happened at the Peterson the night that Lori was killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Matt Peterson tell the police about his wife during the questioning in chapter four?

2. What does Marino tell Scarpetta in chapter eight about what Tanner has told him?

3. Describe what Scarpetta recalls happening when Amburgey had visited the morgue for the first time.

4. What is Scarpetta told happened to their computer system in chapter five?

5. Describe what the crime scene in Lori Peterson's house looks like.

6. Describe the scene outside when Scarpetta leaves the crime scene.

7. In chapter two what does Scarpetta note about Lori Peterson's injuries?

8. What do Betty and Scarpetta talk about in chapter six?

9. What does Scarpetta say about Bertha and their work relationship?

10. What does Marino find out about the rape charges that Matt Peterson had been brought up on when he was younger?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) What is known about the killer psychologically? Is there any indication that he would have stopped killing?

Part 2) What did the author achieve by killing this character off rather than letting him be questioned?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Both Scarpetta and Abby Turnbull are career women. Describe their personalities.

Part 2) Speculate on the reasons that Abby didn't go to the police with her accusations of Bill Boltz's rape. Would Scarpetta have done the same as Abby? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

What is it that Scarpetta feels for the victims that she has had to autopsy for this murder? What does it reveal about Scarpetta that she has let it get to her on a personal level? Could part of the reason she has taken these murder's to heart be in part because she is a woman.

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