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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. With whom does Susan catch a ride on the day most employees cannot come to work?
(a) Scarpetta.
(b) Ben Stevens.
(c) Marino.
(d) James Powers.

2. Who is Vander?
(a) Scarpetta's gardener.
(b) Scarpetta's current boyfriend.
(c) Scarpetta's personal trainer.
(d) Scarpetta's fingerprint expert.

3. How does Nicholas Grueman usually make Scarpetta feel?
(a) Like she is young and beautiful again.
(b) Like she is the smartest person in the room.
(c) Like she is drunk.
(d) Like she is back in law school.

4. Whose office is Scarpetta in when she finally figures out to whom the secret file was sent?
(a) The mayor's.
(b) Her own.
(c) The administrator's.
(d) Marino's.

5. What does Lucy question Scarpetta about on the phone that makes her uncomfortable?
(a) Moving from her old house.
(b) Her new neighborhood.
(c) Mark's death.
(d) All of these answers are correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Scarpetta and Lucy decorate?

2. Where is Ronnie Joe Waddell executed?

3. When was Jennifer married?

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

5. What has happened to the fingerprints taken from Waddell during his autopsy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Nicholas Grueman?

2. What does Lucy think is going on with Waddell's fingerprints supposedly being found at Jennifer's death scene?

3. Why does Jennifer's neighbor not like her?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What conclusion do Marino and Scarpetta come to regarding Jennifer's death?

(see the answer keys)

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