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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 Dr. Paulsson do to Lucy first during his exam?

2. What is Eise's tungsten tools called?

3. Where is Edgar Allan Pogue?

4. What kind of gun does Lucy have with her?

5. What is in Pogue's pocket that he keeps touching?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Scarpetta answer when Marino asks what if Mrs. Paulsson has aids?

2. What is the salesman in the tobacco shop able to tell Marino?

3. What is Lucy talking to the other helicopter pilot about in Dr. Paulsson's waiting room?

4. What does Scarpetta find in the abandoned building where she and Pogue used to work in chapter fifty-four?

5. What change does Lucy notice in Henri in chapter fifty-six?

6. In chapter thirty-five how does Pogue describe the eye?

7. Describe the bomb that was left in Lucy's mailbox.

8. What information is Dr. Paulsson able to give Lucy about Gilly?

9. In chapter thirty-one what happens in the convenience store where Pogue goes to buy an orange drink like he had when he was a kid.

10. What does Rudy call Scarpetta to tell her in chapter forty-two?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) What obvious differences are seen between Benton and Marino?

Part 2) Is there any indication that Scarpetta could care for Marino the same way that he cares for her? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Foreshadowing is used at several different intervals in the story.

Part 1) Pick out three major instances of foreshadowing and explain what they allude to.

Part 2) How would the story have been different without these instances of foreshadowing?

Part 3) Is it possible to write a story with NO foreshadowing in place? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

There are a lot of colors and images used in the story to grab the reader's attention.

Part 1) Speculate on the reasons that the author chose the red, white and blue for the paint chips.

Part 2) What other colors could have been used in their place? Explain.

Part 3) What was significant about the fact that Lucy's mansion was pink?

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