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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. Where does Christine work?
(a) At a hair salon in Baltimore.
(b) The FBI building.
(c) Sojourner Truth School.
(d) At Bank of America.

2. In what city does the Citbank robbery take place?
(a) Rosslyn, Virginia.
(b) Arlington, Virginia.
(c) Silver Spring, Maryland.
(d) Chevy Chase, Maryland.

3. What is the difference between the current robberies and the ones in the past?
(a) No one was killed in the previous ones.
(b) No one was kidnapped in the previous robberies.
(c) No one survived to talk about the previous ones.
(d) The new robberies don't make the headlines.

4. What is the name of Cross' partner?
(a) Shaun Gallegher.
(b) John Sampson.
(c) Jim Simpson.
(d) Eric Ransom.

5. Who has shot himself in the house that Cross and Cavalierre arrive at to interview the suspect who lives there?
(a) Joseph Petrillo.
(b) Tony Brophy.
(c) Mr. Blue.
(d) The Mastermind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sampson do with the baby?

2. How does Cross find the hostages in the third robbery?

3. What river are Christine and Cross walking along the edge of by while talking about what Geoffrey Shafer did to Christine?

4. Where does the second robbery occur?

5. Who is being held hostage somewhere else during the Citibank robbery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cross hope doesn't happen to Jannie in the ambulance? What happens as the doctors finish examining her at the hospital?

2. In the first chapter, is it clear as to whether or not Brianne Parker is serious about harming the bank teller if she doesn't do what she says? How does the author show Brianne's attitude about being a female bank robber?

3. If the bank manager had opened the vault immediately when asked to do so, would her family have been spared? Did Brianne know what would happen to the hostages all along?

4. How does Jannie describe the hospital food? Why is her assessment particularly funny?

5. The Mastermind writes letters to higher-ups in bank corporations. What are they about? Does he send them? Where does he put them?

6. Why is Mr. Blue mad at the Chase Manhattan bank manager's wife, Victoria Casselman? What does he do to her?

7. Describe how Cross feels about Christine. Why does Christine act distantly toward Cross?

8. What is the No. 1 recommendation of the American Society for Industrial Safety in the event of a robbery? How does the author bring this fact up?

9. Where does Jannie think she is when she wakes up from surgery? What has Cross done to show camaraderie for her after her surgery?

10. How did it look to Cross and Sampson that the Mastermind killed the Parkers? Why kill them that way?

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