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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. When the novel first opens, who is Scarpetta waiting for in the morgue?
(a) Pete Marino.
(b) Her assistant, Susan.
(c) Ronnie Joe Waddell.
(d) Television reporters.

2. What neighborhood do Marino and Scarpetta go and visit after they see where Waddell was visited?
(a) The neighborhood where Eddie Health lived.
(b) Scarpetta's neighborhood.
(c) Downtown for dinner.
(d) Marino's neighborhood.

3. What do Scarpetta and Lucy decorate?
(a) Christmas cookies.
(b) Gingerbread houses.
(c) A Christmas tree.
(d) Her new office.

4. Who solved the case that sent Waddell to prison?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Marino.
(c) Wellesly.
(d) Scarpetta.

5. Who is the Christmas dinner guest of Lucy and Scarpetta?
(a) Marino.
(b) All of these answers are correct.
(c) Scarpetta's boyfriend.
(d) Lucy's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucy think someone was trying to do on Scarpetta's computer?

2. What does Eddie Health die from?

3. Who tells Scarpetta that the police were able to lift several fingerprints from the scene where Jennifer's body was found?

4. Who informs Susan's family that she has been murdered?

5. Where is Ronnie Joe Waddell executed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Scarpetta learn from the prison guard about Waddell's final hours?

3. What does Lucy suggest about what has happened to Scarpetta's computer?

4. What does Trace find out about the residue on Heath's wrists?

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

6. What has happened to Eddie Heath?

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

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

9. What reasons does Susan give Scarpetta for why she has been acting funny lately?

10. What does Jennifer Deighton do for a living?

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