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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 Brennan find in the basement in Chapter 3?
(a) A murder weapon.
(b) A leaky pipe.
(c) A skeleton.
(d) Drugs.

2. In Chapter 14, Ryan states that the phone company finally turned over the phone records for the St-Jovite case. What location was called that holds both Ryan and Brennan's interest?
(a) Montreal, Quebec.
(b) Sugar Land, Texas.
(c) Houston, Texas.
(d) Beaufort, North Carolina.

3. Why type of personality does Harry have?
(a) Flirtatious.
(b) Defensive.
(c) Overbearing.
(d) Shy.

4. What is unusual about the murder of Carole Comptois?
(a) Her heart was removed.
(b) She was thrown in the lake.
(c) Her blood was drained through her neck.
(d) She was attacked by dogs.

5. Who does Sam think is responsible for the bodies found on Murtry Island?
(a) Drug runners.
(b) One of his crew.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Brennan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brennan always get to drink?

2. Why does Ryan go to Beaufort in Chapter 14?

3. Who is the leader of the commune found in Chapter 18?

4. How many confirmed dead are in Chapter 2?

5. Who watches Brennan work in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What point of view is the novel written in and what does the reader learn about the narrator as a result? Give specifics from the novel.

2. What suspenseful event happens at the end of Chapter 15 ? What makes it suspenseful? What does it lead to in Chapter 16?

3. What type of person is Sandy O'Reilly? Is she a reliable character? Give evidence to support your assertions.

4. While waiting to go into the basement to look at some remains, Brennan finds the fireman offensive. What does he say and do that makes her uncomfortable? What does this tell you about the type of world Brennan works in?

5. The death of the infants in Chapter 7 reveals emotions in all of the characters involved in the case. Brennan also feels strongly about it. How does she explain her emotions?

6. In Chapter 15, Sam Rayburn is introduced. Who is he? What does he do? What is he like?

7. In Chapter 16, Sam wants Brennan to do something for him. Why her? And why does Brennan not want to do it?

8. What suspenseful event happens at the end of Chapter 11? What might it foreshadow? Was there anything that foreshadowed this happening? If so, what?

9. In Chapter 14, Brennan resists helping Ryan, but ends up agreeing to meet with him. What were her reasons? Give more than one.

10. What type of person is Brennan? How do you know?

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