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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. To who else does Linda say she has made her revelation?
2. Why does Elizabeth take a taxi to the airport from the park without letting David know she is there to meet him?
3. Who visits her financial consultant at the World Financial Center to liquidate assets for paying David's bail?
4. Into what does David fall in Chapter Twenty-Five while evading the police?
5. Who tells David he saved David's life by pulling him out of the lake eight years earlier?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Hoyt's role on the night of Elizabeth's supposed murder at Lake Charmaine and in her hiding out for the next eight years?
2. Who is Melvin Bartola and what is his tie to Elizabeth and to David?
3. In Chapter Twenty-Two, what evidence do the police find at David's home incriminating him in the murder of Rebecca Schayes?
4. Why does Hester quit in Chapter Twenty-Four?
5. Whose body was identified as Elizabeth's and what discrepancies does Shauna note in the autopsy report to convince her that the body was not Elizabeth's?
6. What does Tyrese give David in Chapter Twenty-Three and what does this foreshadow?
7. What information does Peter Flannery reveal about Elizabeth and how does David respond to that information?
8. Why does Elizabeth leave the park without meeting David in Chapter Twenty-Nine?
9. What reason does Hoyt give David for taking him to Griffin Scope's house? What is his true reason?
10. When Hester calls David to alert him of his impending arrest, why doesn't David want to surrender?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Dr. David Beck is the protagonist of the novel, but he is also a murderer. Discuss the character of David and his role as protagonist or hero. What are his character strengths and flaws? How do these strengths and flaws help and hinder him during the story? How does his medical background help or hinder his solving of the mystery of whether his wife is alive or dead? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the book's ending and the revelation of David's role in Brandon Scope's death. Was the ending of the book satisfactory to you? Is it believable that Elizabeth and David never mentioned Scope's death to each other at the lake on the day Elizabeth disappeared? Cite examples from the text to support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
Tell No One takes place in present day New York. Discuss how the geographical and chronological setting affect the story and how the characters and story might differ if Harlan Coben had set the novel in Atlanta during the Civil War instead. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
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