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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. What does the FBI decide to do with Bosch's case?
(a) Let Bosch and Edgar handle it by themselves.
(b) Agree to work with Bosch's department to solve it as quickly as possible.
(c) Take it over and fold it into the bank heist case.
(d) Close it.

2. Before calling into the pipe, what does Sharkey wait for?
(a) The police to arrive.
(b) He waits until he can't hear the engine of the vehicle anymore.
(c) His graffitti artist friend to arrive.
(d) He waits until he gets the courage to call into the pipe.

3. What does the pawn shop owner show Bosch?
(a) A Polaroid of the ring.
(b) A Polaroid of the bracelet.
(c) A digital photo of the bracelet.
(d) A photo of the Vietnam War-era gun.

4. Once pressed for more details, what does Sharkey say he saw the driver of the vehicle do?
(a) Threaten to kill a man who was riding in the passenger side of the vehicle if he doesn't help with the body.
(b) Scream at a woman about what they should do with a body.
(c) Kill a man.
(d) Pull a body out from under a blanket.

5. As Bosch is talking with Wish, what reason does he give her for the fact that his victim was killed?
(a) Meadows gave a valuable piece of information to the police.
(b) Revenge for Meadows's killing someone else involved in the heist.
(c) An FBI agent killed Meadows because he was on the verge of revealing the FBI agent's cover-up.
(d) The victim was probably killed for "breaking the rules."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the FBI think the thieves get into the vault?

2. At the crime scene, what kind of tattoo does Bosch notice?

3. Why does Sharkey climb into a Grand Am?

4. After Wish and Bosch make up after the interrogation of Sharkey, why do they go to Ventura County?

5. When Bosch and Wish tell Colonel Gordon Scales about the murder of Meadows, what is Scales's response?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what occurs when Bosch and Wish drive to the Charlie Company.

2. What happens when Sharkey climbs into the Grand Am?

3. What are the instructions that detective Bosch gives to his partner after they examine the crime scene? What does Bosch intend to do after he leaves the crime scene?

4. Explain how the FBI believes the thieves are tunnel rats from the Vietnam War.

5. Describe the relationship between Bosch and Wish in Part 4 of the novel.

6. Describe the Los Angeles Police Department's (LAPD) relationship with the Times and then explain why Bosch goes to Bremmer and the deal that they make.

7. On the third day of the investigation, what is the summary of the crime that Wish provides?

8. When detective Bosch arrives at the crime scene, describe the body he finds and the location of the body.

9. Describe the scene outside of the pawn shop when Bosch arrives there.

10. Describe how detective Bosch identifies the body he finds at the crime scene.

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