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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 Lucy say to Scarpetta while they are eating dinner in chapter nine?

2. What startles Scarpetta while she is walking into the parking garage in chapter twelve?

3. Lucy keeps telling Scarpetta that it will be nice when what happens in chapter ten?

4. Where is a large percentage of the world's borax mined at?

5. What does Scarpetta hear when she answers the phone in chapter ten?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe what happens when the killer breaks into Scarpetta's home?

3. In chapter eleven what does Abby recall about telling her sister to be careful?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Spiro suggest to Scarpetta in chapter twelve regarding the murder of Henna?

9. Describe the phone conversation that occurs with Cecile's family in chapter fourteen.

10. Describe what happens while Scarpetta is listening to the 911 tapes that Marino let her take home.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Describe Bill Boltz. How does it change the reader's view of Bill when it is learned that he raped Abby?

Part 2) Speculate on whether or not Abby was lying.

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Explain the relationship that Lucy and Scarpetta have.

Part 2) What does Lucy represent for Scarpetta? What does Scarpetta represent for Lucy?

Part 3) What is significant in Lucy's statement at the end of the story that Scarpetta is sounding just like Scarpetta's mother?

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) What does it say about Bill that he asked Marino to keep an eye on Scarpetta?

Part 2) Is it possible that Bill will attack another woman, if he was guilty of raping Abby?

Part 3) Is there any indication that Bill will be back in other Scarpetta books? Explain why the author would or would not reuse him.

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