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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's sister want to study?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Hot air ballooning.
(c) Forensics.
(d) Holistic counseling.

2. In Chapter 12, why does Claudel call Brennan.
(a) To ask her for help.
(b) To yell at her for wasting his time.
(c) To ask about Anna Goyette.
(d) To tell her about a case he is working on.

3. What does Ryan ask Brennan to do in Chapter 9?
(a) Lighten up.
(b) Work late.
(c) Give him her phone number.
(d) Go get a drink.

4. In a conversation with the parents of the murder victims from St-Jovite, Ryan learns that a man came to see the parents of the twins shortly after they were born. What does the grandfather compare him to?
(a) An alien.
(b) A skunk.
(c) The terminator.
(d) A gorilla.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sister Julienne look for in Chapter 8?

2. What is Sam Rayburn's profession?

3. Who does Brennan call to ask for help looking for Sister Julienne's missing person?

4. Where does Brennan stay while in Beaufort?

5. What is the setting in the opening scene of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence in Chapter 2 makes Brennan worry about finding children in St-Jovite?

2. What do the events in Chapters 16 and 17 reveal about Brennan's character?

3. In Chapter 6, Brennan meets Dr. Jeannotte's teaching assistant. Describe the teaching assistant based on Brennan's observations and conversation with her.

4. What type of procedure does Brennan have to do on the murdered infants bodies in Chapter 7? Describe the procedure. Why does she need to do this?

5. What is ironic about Dr. Jeannotte telling Dr. Brennan that evil people don't exist and that "the myth continues, even here in Montreal, only now there's a new bogeyman practicing ritual child killing" (113)?

6. In Chapter 5, Brennan is shocked when she sees the skull of Elisabeth Nicolet, but she does not indicate why. Why does Kathy Reich withhold this information? What is the effect? And what might be the problem based on Brennan's questions to the priest?

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

8. Kathy Reichs uses jargon to help create credibility for her character's professions. Which characters use jargon and why?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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