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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. After talking to Kerwin, what does Harry decide to do in Chapter 16?
(a) Go to Mexico.
(b) Drop his pursuit of the case.
(c) Arrest Kerwin.
(d) Arrest Porter.

2. In Chapter 16, why does Harry think Lieutenant Pounds wants him to avoid connecting the death of Kapps and Guitierrez-Llosa with Cal Moore?
(a) It might make the department look bad.
(b) Pounds was involved in the murders and wants to cover himself.
(c) If it turns out Moore's death is connected to the other two, the Robbery Homicide squad will take the case over. And that will prevent Pounds from counting the case in his end of year statistics.
(d) He feels guilty that Kapps died.

3. During his conversation in Chapter 5 with Pounds, Harry takes his "full measure." What is it that he realizes?
(a) Pounds is not a good cop.
(b) Pounds is a killer.
(c) Pounds is a bureaucrat more than he is a cop.
(d) Pounds is very smart.

4. What do Harry and Richard learn from the kid they meet on the street?
(a) Nothing, he refuses to share any information and is arrested instead.
(b) The name of a club where drugs are dealt.
(c) The name of a major drug dealer.
(d) The location of Cal Moore's body.

5. Where does Harry look when he returns to his search for Porter in Chapter 12?
(a) "Bottle clubs" that open after bars close.
(b) Twenty-four hour restaurants.
(c) Hospitals.
(d) Drive-in theaters.

Short Answer Questions

1. There is a mystery revealed about Harry's Lieutenant Pounds in Chapter 16. He often has white powder residue on his pants. What is it from?

2. Harry learns what "black ice" is from Cal Moore. What it?

3. Why is Harry more worried about spending New Year's Eve alone than Christmas?

4. What does Harry realize about Rickard as they process the arrest of the young drug dealer?

5. Harry examines Porter's unsolved cases and discovers an odd coincidence. What is it?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the work environment in Harry's police station.

2. Why does Harry seem so drawn to the teenager he and Rickard arrested when he goes and talks to him after he returns to visit him in jail?

3. How does Harry think Juan Doe's body, killed in Mexicali, made it to Los Angeles?

4. What is black ice?

5. What probably happened to Porter after Harry lost him in the coffee shop?

6. What is the BANG squad?

7. According to Harry, why are homicides in Hollywood more difficult to solve than elsewhere?

8. Why does Harry think that solving homicide cases are the only cases that matter?

9. How did the "Juan Doe" die, and how did the case reach Bosch?

10. What was unusual about the fruit flies found in the autopsy, according to Teresa Corazon?

(see the answer keys)

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