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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. What does Scarpetta use to park at the building?
(a) A Chief Medical Examiner plate.
(b) Twenty bucks to the traffic cop.
(c) Dr. Marcus' personal space.
(d) A Handicap sticker.

2. How was Gilly Paulsson killed?
(a) Death by influenza.
(b) Death by asphyxiation.
(c) Death by stabbing.
(d) Death by drowning.

3. What does Kate do while Lucy is upstairs in Kate's home?
(a) She is hiding her drugs.
(b) She is washing dishes.
(c) She is mixing drinks.
(d) She is changing clothes.

4. What is Pogue's job in the Anatomical division?
(a) He cooks in the cafeteria.
(b) He sweeps up the crematorium.
(c) He cleans up after the workers.
(d) He prepares cadavers for scientific purposes.

5. What is found on Gilly's pillowcase?
(a) Blood.
(b) Ciliated respiratory epithelium.
(c) Long black hairs.
(d) Latent fingerprints.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Mrs. Paulsson's ex-husband?

2. What room in Kate's home looks directly into Lucy's master bedroom suite?

3. What color is the mud that Scarpetta and Marino walk in?

4. Why does Mrs. Paulsson go upstairs the morning of Gilly's death?

5. Who told Marino about Mr. Paulsson's involvement with the FBI?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what the Decomposed Room looks like.

2. Why does Dr. Kay Scarpetta come to Richmond, Va?

3. Describe what Lucy finds taped to her back door.

4. What are the events that Mrs. Paulsson remembers on the day of Gilly's death?

5. Describe the dining and living area of Lucy's Florida home.

6. What does Marino and Scarpetta find in Gilly Paulsson's dresser?

7. Describe the treasured items that Edgar Allen Pogue moved with.

8. Describe the scene in the end of chapter twenty eight in which Marino is watching Scarpetta finish up gather samples at the scene of the Whitby death.

9. Describe Edgar Allen Pogue's supervisor,Dave, at the Anatomical Division.

10. On the day of Henri's assault, why was Lucy driving the blue Ferrari?

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