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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 Rita buy at a hardware store?

2. What type of a journal does the waitress at the New York bistro have where Reacher and Harper eat lunch?

3. How long has it been since Reacher has seen Rita?

4. Who made the list of women who had been sexually harassed in the Army?

5. What time does Reacher call Jodie after he reaches Quantico in Chapter 26?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Reacher believe may be the motive for the killings?

2. Why isn't Bob McGuire or anyone else stealing weapons anymore?

3. What opinions are given for the scratches that are on Alison's face when the body is examined at Quantico?

4. Why did Reacher leave the Army?

5. Why does a military chaplain come to see Rita?

6. Why is the door to the x-ray room in the pathology lab at Quantico heavily lined with lead?

7. What is Rita Scimeca's bedtime routine?

8. Where does Reacher believe that the weapons are being stolen from?

9. Why does Reacher say that Rita Scimeca was a real tough cookie?

10. How does the killer get into Rita's car?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the views that Reacher and Lamarr hold regarding criminal profiling. Use examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how Rita was coping with the trauma from the rape. Use examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why the FBI wanted Lamarr's death to look like a suicide and why Reacher agreed not to dispute that Lamarr killed herself. Use examples from "Running Blind."

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