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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 think of the lack of abrasions on Heath's wrists?
(a) He was bound after he was shot.
(b) He was definitely not killed by Waddell.
(c) The tape was very loose.
(d) Someone other than the killer put tape on his wrists.

2. Who is Jennifer Deighton?
(a) A person whose death Scarpetta has to investigate.
(b) All of these answers are correct.
(c) A former Olympic athlete.
(d) A famous news reporter.

3. How easy is it for Lucy to get into Scarpetta's database?
(a) Not easy or hard.
(b) It's impossible.
(c) Very hard.
(d) Very easy.

4. Who is Frank Donahue?
(a) Scarpetta's boyfriend.
(b) The prison warden.
(c) Lucy's boyfriend.
(d) Lucy's father.

5. What does Scarpetta notice on Susan Stone's body while examining the crime scene?
(a) Susan is not dressed in her usual clothes.
(b) Men's cologne.
(c) A random set of keys.
(d) Susan dyed her hair recently.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are most employees unable to come to the morgue the day after Jennifer's body was found?

2. What is the name of the guard who searches Scarpetta when she goes to see where Waddell was executed?

3. Why does Scarpetta decide to stop at Susan's house on her way to a party?

4. What is Scarpetta's opinion of Heath's killer?

5. What has Lucy done to Scarpetta's office without asking while Scarpetta is at work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the prison nearly empty when Marino and Scarpetta go to investigate Waddell's execution?

2. What suspicious call does Scarpetta get while in the lab after Jennifer's autopsy?

3. What is Scarpetta looking for on people's computers while she is trying to figure out who hacked into her own machine?

4. What does Scarpetta think of Heath's wounds?

5. What evidence points to murder instead of suicide at the scene where Jennifer's body is found?

6. What is Scarpetta's feeling on the death penalty?

7. What is so strange about the prison warden's behavior at the holiday party Scarpetta attends?

8. What did Jennifer take an interest in shortly before her death?

9. What makes Marino and Scarpetta think Jennifer was not killed as part of a robbery.

10. What happened to Marino's partner before Waddell was caught?

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