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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 is the alleged cause of death of the person at the park?

2. What was the first name of the victim?

3. What is the profession of Jack McEvoy?

4. What is the detective's nickname?

5. What is the brother's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the meeting between Jack and Washington. What is the purpose of the meeting?

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

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

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

5. What does Jack hope to accomplish while he is in Chicago? What information is uncovered?

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

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

8. Sean explains a cop's life to Jack and discusses a particularly disturbing subject. What is the subject?

9. What is Riley's reaction when she learns that Sean is dead? What common opinion does Riley share with Jack?

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

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

Examine Jack's relationship with the FBI. How did the members of the FBI team react to Jack's input? Which member of the team was most resistant to working with Jack? Who was the most cooperative? Do you think Jack's interaction with the agents was logical and reasonable or irrational?

Essay Topic 3

Often times in a sensational case, the media will interfere with the investigation. Discuss how the media was handled in the case of the Poet. Why did Sean and the other cops act "as if they felt no obligation to talk to the public at all?" Why did the media take it upon itself to conduct its own investigation? What did the author mean when he stated that the media was responsible for "numbing the reading and television-watching public with sordid details about the victim's life that actually had nothing to do with anything?"

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