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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Harry realize that he has lost after attempting to interrogate Kerwin in Chapter 15?

3. Why does Teresa feel compelled to say that the reason for Cal Moore's death was inconclusive?

4. Why didn't the other patrons leave the bar when Porter and Harry started to fight?

5. In Chapter 11, why does Harry decide he needs to talk to Porter next?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the BANG squad?

3. What does the teenager finally tell Harry about Dance and what does it make Harry decide?

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

5. 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?

6. What is the evidence that Teresa uncovered having to do with brain tissue and what does it mean?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define and describe the terms plot tension and conflict, and apply them to the story of this book. Your essay should do the following:

1) Describe, from a technical point of view, the conflict structure of this book,

2) Offer examples of key moments to illustrate and serve as examples of your description of Connelly's technique, and

3) Determine what the central conflict of this novel is and explain why.

Essay Topic 2

How does Harry Bosch solve this mystery? Write an essay that describes the key clues to this mystery and how Harry puts them all together. Please offer at least one example from the beginning or middle of the book, although it is appropriate to focus on the last parts of the book.

Essay Topic 3

There are only a couple of women characters in this novel. Choose either Teresa Corazon or Sylvia Moore and construct a critique of her characterization. This essay should include 1) a description of the major techniques Connolly uses to characterize her, 2) the role she plays in the plot and conflict structure of the book, 3) her relationship to Harry, the hero of the series, and 4) your opinion of the character. Be sure to use specific textual evidence to build an argument for your interpretation.

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