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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nina Voss tell Abby is the secret to a successful marriage?

2. What surprises Abby about what she finds in the Levi home in Chapter 16?

3. What important question does Mark ask Abby in Chapter 12?

4. How does Abby embarrass the security guards in Chapter 13?

5. What does Abby tell the reader in Chapter 12 some new doctors do when called to pronounce a death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Abby and Vivien ask Dr. Ivan Tarasoff to do in order to help with their investigation into Nina Voss' heart donor in Chapter 16?

2. What does Jeremiah Parr decide to do with the information given him by Abby in Chapter 12 regarding Nina Voss' heart transplant?

3. Why does Abby suspect that Mark is in on the sale of human organs? What danger does Vivien suggest this poses for Abby?

4. What story does Abby tell Katzka and Lundquist in Chapter 18? Do they believe her?

5. Where does Yakov see Nadiya take Aleksei in Chapter 19? Where does Yakov think Aleksei is going?

6. How does Mary Allen die? Who pronounces her death?

7. What complaints does Elaine's mother-in-law make about her method of grieving in Chapter 11?

8. For what reason does Abby lose her job completely at the end of Chapter 17?

9. What does Mr. Parr do to Abby in Chapter 13 after searching her locker? Why?

10. Who are the passengers in the aft cabin as discussed in Chapter 14?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the team values of the transplant team at Bayside. What does the transplant team expect of their team members? What do they tell Abby about their expectations where she is concerned? Is there anything unusual about these expectations? How do these expectations become more sinister as the plot continues to develop? What do these expectations have to do with Aaron Levi's death? With the money his wife found in a secret bank account? With his wife's disappearance? With the deaths of two other doctors?

Essay Topic 2

Nina Voss believes her husband loves her too much? What does that mean? Is it possible to love someone too much? How is Victor Voss making Nina unhappy as she heals from her first transplant surgery? How does Nina feel about this? How does Nina react when she learns her husband might have paid for her new heart? How does Nina feel about her marriage at the end of the novel? How does Nina feel about her impending death? What does this say about Nina's character? How does Nina's character and convictions compare to Victor's?

Essay Topic 3

Why are children routinely taken off the freight ship? Where are they going? What does the helicopter come for? What is behind the locked blue door? Why does Yakov want to go behind the blue door? How come Yakov panics when it is his turn to go behind the blue door? What happens to Aleksei when he goes behind the blue door? Why do the other children think the boys are disappearing? Why does no one question the activities taking place on the freight ship?

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