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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. Assistant Chief Irving laments the fact that not enough officers bother to do what?
(a) Take fingerprints.
(b) Run after criminals.
(c) Learn Spanish.
(d) Investigate crimes.

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

3. It's Cal Moore who first tells Harry about Black Ice. What is Ice?
(a) A slippery substance that causes accidents on freeways.
(b) The name of a gang.
(c) A rare and valuable flower.
(d) A drug.

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

5. Harry harms Porter in the course of their conversation. What does he do?
(a) He breaks Porter's nose.
(b) He burns Porter's hand.
(c) He breaks Porter's wrist.
(d) He breaks Porter's toe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Bosch and Rickard decide to do with the young drug dealer after he is arrested?

2. Harry notified Moore's wife--Sylvia--of the death. She calls later to thank him. What does Harry conclude at the end of that call?

3. Harry cannot sleep because of the developing case. How does this make him feel?

4. Why do the other bar patrons eventually leave?

5. Why does Bosch sometimes think solving homicide cases are all that matter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Harry begin to dislike Rickard after they bust the teenager for possession?

2. Why do the police believe Moore killed himself?

3. Why does the kid think that Harry must be being nice to him? Is he correct?

4. 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?

5. Why does Bosch act so upset in the first chapter?

6. What is Rickard doing when he calls Harry in Chapter 11?

7. What does Harry learn in Chapter 12 about why Porter did not come clean with what he knew about Juan Doe?

8. What is the real reason why Harry Bosch finds Hollywood depressing?

9. How does the reader know, in Chapter 7, that Harry empathizes with Porter?

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

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