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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 Kreizler do for a living?

2. What is the stage name of the victim Joseph knew?

3. What is the name of the professor who wrote the psychology book Moore studies?

4. Why is Sara worried about Kreizler in Chapter 19?

5. Who says, "There's no sense of haste about these injuries."?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kreizler become angry when he is at Bellevue?

2. What do the Isaacsons tell Moore and Kreizler about the murders of a brother and sister after examining their bodies?

3. How do Moore and Kreizler begin reminiscing about the murder case that makes up the stories narrative?

4. Why do Kreizler and Moore visit Kreizler's institute in Chapter 7?

5. Why does the investigative team visit Castle Garden in Chapter 14?

6. Why is Sara concerned for the safety of the Santorellis?

7. Why does Moore wake up in a strange place in Chapter 12?

8. What theories does the team develop about the killer's childhood and history, based on the evidence they have found?

9. How is the room where Giorgio served his clients described?

10. Why does Kreizler withhold his goal from the Isaacsons when he asks them to examine the bodies of a brother and sister?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the reasons why the team is drawn to the murder case. When do you first get the sense that the case is very important to Kreizler? Why do you think he initially becomes involved in wanting to solve it? What about the other characters?

Essay Topic 2

Explore the role of Theodore Roosevelt in the novel. How does he drive the plot? Discuss the ways the story benefits from having a real person as a character. What disadvantages are there to this usage?

Essay Topic 3

Look at the use of foreshadowing in the novel. Choose at least two instances of foreshadowing and expand on them. How was the foreshadowed issue addressed later in the novel? Why do you think Carr chooses to use foreshadowing in these instances?

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