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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 Harry realize that he has lost after attempting to interrogate Kerwin in Chapter 15?
(a) His faith in humanity.
(b) His home.
(c) His car keys.
(d) The art of getting people to talk you rather than forcing them.

2. What does Parker Center--the L.A. Police Department's headquarters--symbolize to Harry in Chapter 8?
(a) A beacon for justice.
(b) A bureaucratic labyrinth.
(c) The end of his career.
(d) A web of corruption.

3. Harry spoke with Cal Moore before his death about a case. What does he discover after Moore's death from his colleagues?
(a) That Cal wanted to leave his wife.
(b) That Cal had planted evidence.
(c) That Cal had planned to quit the police force.
(d) That Cal had not told Harry everything he knew.

4. What ethical concern does Harry have in reading the file Moore left for him?
(a) Attorney-client privilege might be jeopardized.
(b) He realizes that the Robbery-Homicide division should see it too.
(c) Harry is concerned about witness safety.
(d) Moore's notes were meant to be confidential.

5. Who does Harry call before leaving for Mexico in Chapter 16?
(a) Assistant Chief Irving.
(b) Carols Aguila, the Mexican detective investigating the death of Juan Doe.
(c) Lieutenant Pounds.
(d) Captain Grena, the Mexican police capatain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Harry meet with Rickard?

2. Harry harms Porter in the course of their conversation. What does he do?

3. Pounds asks Harry to solve a case by New Year's Day to improve the Department's statistics. Why does this offend Harry?

4. Why does Harry visit the the Medfly Eradication Project Center in Chapter 14?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapters 9 and 10, what is bothering Teresa?

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

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

6. Why does Harry's possible identification of the Juan Doe in Chapter 13 confirm that the three cases might be related?

7. Why does Moore's life begin disintegrating, according to his wife?

8. What does Harry learn from the crime scene technician in Chapter 8?

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

10. What does Harry's boss tell him at the beginning of Chapter 5, and what is Harry's response?

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