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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 item does Jack steal?

2. What is the name of the department that captures Gladden?

3. What is the name of Gladden's attorney?

4. Jack receives news that his brother is in what scenic location?

5. What is the name of Jack's twin brother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Jack arrives in Washington DC?

2. What are the first suspicions that Jack has about the case? Do Wexler and St. Louis confirm Jack's theory?

3. What is Washington's reaction when he learns Jack's back story? How is the incident smoothed over?

4. In the opening chapter, Jack McEvoy learns something disturbing about his twin bother. What is the news and how did it happen?

5. Chapter 13 begins with Gladden connecting to the PTL club network. What message does Gladden receive? What message does he post in return?

6. Where do Jack and Legs meet? Where do the men go and why?

7. Jack is able to make a tenuous connection to Warren. What is the connection?

8. The Theresa Lofton case is compared to a similar murder case of the 1940s. What are the similar details?

9. What was the interaction between Sean and the media at that time?

10. How does the park ranger help the case? What does he do? How does the information help Jack?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Like Jack, Glenn was once a hotshot reporter. Examine Glenn's career. Why did Glenn switch to an editorial position? Compare and contrast Glenn's style and experience with Jack's work and professional accomplishments.

Essay Topic 2

Explore the use of the Theresa Lofton case. Why was the case so important? What about the case captured the eye of the CAPs unit? What was Sean's opinion of the case? What was unusual about the girl's death? How did the case affect Sean? Did the case have anything to do with Sean's death? Explain. What was the final resolution regarding the case?

Essay Topic 3

Would the story have had a different impact if the killer had used quotes from another poet? What other kinds of clues might the killer decide to leave at the scene of the crime? Discuss well known cases in which the killer left obvious or cryptic clues. Were the clues ever deciphered? Did the clues help to solve the case?

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