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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 Lindsay doing as Jenks is arraigned?

2. What kind of suspicious-looking man do the security tapes of the museum show?

3. What does Jenks tell Lindsay after he escapes?

4. Which member of the Women's Murder Club does Lindsay finally convince to look into Joanna's background?

5. What is Jenks' first reaction to being question about Kathy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Lindsay and Raleigh unable to get a good look at the man on the museum security tapes?

2. What does Lindsay learn about Jenks by looking at his picture on the back of one of his books?

3. Why must Lindsay be careful in her initial investigation of Nicholas Jenks?

4. What does Jill tell Jenks as she is questioning him?

5. Why is Lindsay's recollection that Jenks is left-handed important?

6. Why is Jill a good addition to the Women's Murder Club?

7. What does Joanna tell Lindsay about her relationship with Chessy?

8. How does the Women's Murder Club react to Lindsay's suggestion that she has arrested the wrong man?

9. What was especially cruel about Jenks leaving Joanna?

10. What convinces Lindsay that Jenks is innocent?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Lindsay and Raleigh either as lovers OR as police detectives.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze at least three different literary techniques Patterson uses to create tension in "1st to Die."

Essay Topic 3

Although the novel seems to conclude with all of the loose ends being tied up, the reader learns from the Prologue that Lindsay is extremely depressed by the time the story ends. Discuss what three things most contribute to Lindsay's unhappiness and why Patterson may have chosen to have his strong, intelligent protagonist so unhappy at the novel's conclusion.

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