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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. Where does Moore reveal to Harry that he (Moore) is from?
(a) The East Coast.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Calexico.
(d) Mexicali.

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

3. What does Harry do for Kerwin in Chapter 15?
(a) Rents him a motel room.
(b) Gives him bail money.
(c) He sends him to a GED program to finish high school.
(d) He drug tests him.

4. Harry's meeting with Teresa Corazon is intended to give him more information about the Juan Doe who was found dead in the alley behind the diner. What does Harry find out?
(a) He was killed by Cal Moore.
(b) He was killed with a wooden stick.
(c) He was killed with a wooden stick and his body was dumped in the alley after death.
(d) His body was dumped in the alley after death.

5. Why didn't the other patrons leave the bar when Porter and Harry started to fight?
(a) The other patrons felt like they were above the law.
(b) Harry had blocked all of the exits.
(c) They were all police.
(d) If they left, there would be no place left to go and that scares them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Harry angry at Porter when he sees him in Chapter 12?

2. What attracts Harry Bosch's attention on the police scanner as the book opens?

3. What does Moore's wife hint might have been reason her husband committed suicide?

4. Where does Harry find Porter?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Harry begin to think that Moore was a bad cop?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. Give at least two reasons that foreshadow the fact that Harry will go to Mexico.

10. What is black ice?

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