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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. How is the Parkers' hideout furnished?
(a) With brand-new furnishings they bought with the robbery money.
(b) With a stained mattress and rusty lawn chair.
(c) Like a hospital room.
(d) With a futon and a miniature refrigerator.

2. Why does Cross take his kids into the basement?
(a) They need to clean up before Nana comes down.
(b) Because the tornado siren go off.
(c) For their weekly boxing lesson.
(d) He has to tell them something serious.

3. How do Brianne and Errol die?
(a) They are shot execution-style.
(b) They are poisoned with Anectine.
(c) They are poisoned with arsenic.
(d) Their throats are slit.

4. Who is Christine?
(a) Alex's wife.
(b) Alex's girlfriend.
(c) A friend of the family.
(d) Alex's sister.

5. What river are Christine and Cross walking along the edge of by while talking about what Geoffrey Shafer did to Christine?
(a) The Snake River.
(b) The Chesapeake River.
(c) The Washington River.
(d) The Anacostia River.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of pets did the person who shot himself have?

2. What happened to Christine about a year before?

3. What time of day is it when Cross locates Jannie at the hospital?

4. What does the person comforting Cross bring him to drink as they talk?

5. What is Jannie doing when Cross finally arrives at the hospital after studying the crime scene of the third robbery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cross tease Nana Mama about when wakes up early the morning after finding the Parkers dead? How does she respond?

2. Is the bank robbery crew for the Falls Church job as good as the Parkers? Are they as expensive?

3. With which drug does the Mastermind kill the second team of bank robbers? How does the drug work?

4. How does Christine react to hearing the news of the murdered mother in a London supermarket? Why is her suspicion about who committed the crime particularly odd?

5. Why is Cross confused when he describes the case to Kyle Craig? How does Craig explain what Cross is confused about?

6. Why does the Mastermind have Brianne and Errol do his dirty work instead of committing the horrible deeds himself?

7. Why does Brianne feel confident and in control of the situation at Citibank?

8. Where is Jannie's tumor located and is it serious?

9. Where does Joseph Petrillo live? What is the neighborhood like? What happens when Cross and Cavalierre reach his house?

10. How many people are initially thought to have been killed in the Citibank robbery? How many were really killed by Errol Parker?

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