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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 connection begins to emerge between cases?

2. In what major US city does the majority of the story take place?

3. Where does Gladden go when he tries to hide from the police?

4. What item does Jack steal?

5. What is the name of the newspaper that employs Jack?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the name of the lead investigator on the Smathers case? Where does the man work?

2. How did the media react to Sean's boycott?

3. Who were the news bearers? How were they related to Sean? Where did they work?

4. Discuss Jack's trip to Chicago. Why is Chicago special to Jack? Why has Jack flown to the Windy City?

5. What happens when Jack arrives in Washington DC?

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

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

8. How does Legs act when Jack tells the whole story?

9. Jack has a flash back to a previous time. What was the situation between Jack and Sean?

10. What happened after the case had been pursued doggedly for two weeks?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gladden was part of a large network of people that exploited children. Do such networks exist? If so, how is it possible? Can the networks be detected by technology? Are the networks online? How can children be protected from the network and the people that belong to it? Why is the network illegal? How can the police trace the network's activities? How can such networks be stopped or prevented? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Examine Jack's relationship with his parents. What could Jack do to repair the relationship? What caused the rift? Which side is right? What could Jack's parents do to improve the relationship with Jack? How did the parents relate to Sean and Riley?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the relationship between Jack and Rachel Walling. How did they meet? Was the relationship personal, professional, or both? How did the relationship affect Sean's case? What was Waling's opinion of Jack's investigation? Were Waling's assumptions about Jack correct? What did Waling's co-workers think of Jack?

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