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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 the killer say on the 911 tape before he hangs up?

2. What does Evans tell Lindsay about the club when she lays down pictures in chapter thirty-eight?

3. What was Lindsay's father's pet name for her when she was seven?

4. What does Lindsay call Cindy when they meet in chapter fifty-seven?

5. What does Jacobi tell Lindsay when he calls her from the Blue Parrot?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the call that the killer made to 911 that lured Davidson in to be killed.

2. What happens when Cindy's date arrives in chapter forty-nine?

3. Describe Lindsay's meeting with Weiscz.

4. Describe the memorial service that is held for Tasha Catchings.

5. What does Claire tell Lindsay she found in her examination of the skin from under Estelle Chipman's fingernails in chapter twenty-nine?

6. What changes occur after the death of Mercer?

7. How does officer Davidson die?

8. What does Lindsay discover when she goes to see Mercer's wife?

9. After thinking about what Weiscz told Lindsay what does she do?

10. What do Mercer and Lindsay discuss in chapter forty-two?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following to write about.

1) If you had to choose one of the jobs of the four women belonging to the murder club, which one would you choose and why? Lawyer, ME, Police officer, or Newspaper reporter.

2) Speculate on the reasons that Weiscz was willing to tell Lindsay anything when she went to talk to him in the prison system.

3) Could there have been something different put on the window of the church? If so what?

Essay Topic 2

1) Do you think that the story could have been told from another character's point of view rather than Lindsay? If so which one and why?

2) If you were going to write a follow up story to 2nd Chance which character would be the main focus?

3) What effect did it have that the author put Lindsay's point of view in first person but used third person with the other characters? Could first or third have been used for all the characters? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

1) What was the main plot of the story?

2) What were three of the top subplots in the story? How did they affect the main plot?

3) What was the climax of the main plot?

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