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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. Why does Bertha say she likes to have the blinds open?

2. What does Scarpetta say about Lucy's IQ in chapter fourteen?

3. 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?

4. What does Lucy say is hidden beside the modem in Scarpetta's closet?

5. Why does Lucy say that Bill and Scarpetta want Lucy to leave?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Abby Turnbull say happened to her that the police didn't help with?

5. What happens in chapter fourteen when Scarpetta arrives for work?

6. What does Abby say in chapter eleven is the reason that she hates Bill Boltz.

7. When Scarpetta is talking to Wingo in chapter sixteen what does Wingo explain that he has discover?

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

9. Describe the results of the testing done by Scarpetta and Vander in chapter ten with the pink soap.

10. What do Lucy and Scarpetta talk about at the kitchen table in chapter nine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Explain the impact that it has on the reader to learn that the killer is picking women by the voices rather than by seeing them or meeting them. Is it significant that these women are picked to be murdered after calling 911?

Part 2) What is the point of giving the killer an odd body odor?

Part 3) Which of the pieces of evidence seemed to give the greatest help to the investigators in the story? Explain your answer. Could this piece have been enough without the others?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Describe the effect that the stress has on Scarpetta over the course of the story.

Part 2) Is it understandable that Scarpetta forgot to load the gun?

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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