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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. After the attack in the parking garage, what do Regan, Sophie, and Cordie do at the end of the evening?
2. What does Dr. Shields want the group to do with their "murder lists?"
3. What is Alec's hiding place during the drug bust?
4. How does Mary Coolidge meet Dr. Lawrence Shields?
5. Who calls Detective Lewis and clues him in to Regan's wealth?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 19, Wincott tells Alec that Sweeney kept a diary. What does the diary say? Why is this information important? Does any of this connect to Regan? Why or why not?
2. Who is Dr. Lawrence Shields and what is his relationship with Mary Coolidge?
3. Why does Sophie really want to get involved with the Mary Coolidge case?
4. Why does Alec not want to be Regan's bodyguard for three weeks?
5. Sophie tells the other women that Dr. Shields left the island. Why are Sophie and Cordie going to stay after he already left?
6. What does the killer do when he returns home from murdering the runner in the park?
7. When the workers find the toe sticking out of the ground near the running trail, what do they know about the victim just by looking at the toe? Consider the location. What else could the workers surmise from their findings?
8. When Regan tells Alec that the murder list is hers, what is his reaction and why?
9. What is the killer's life at home like?
10. When Regan's knee gives out, what happens in the mind of the killer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When Regan discovers that Aiden towed her car and replaced it with a BMW, she is livid. But Aiden makes some good points about the old car vs. the new car. What are they? Do they make sense? Should Regan have been driving a newer car? How would the attack in the garage have been different if Regan had a newer car? Are Aiden's actions overprotective or just protective? Why do you think this?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Regan's computer, fax machine, and cell phone as separate entities called the technology character. They seem to almost have a personality of their own. What information do they provide in the story that keeps the story moving along? What cryptic information does Melissa, the computer technician, deliver to move the story along? Why is it important when Regan finds the computer on and Melissa finds other people in the "loop?" How would this story have been different without this technology, especially the cell phone?
Essay Topic 3
Why is there a feeling of joking and love after the blow up in Spencer's office? What is Regan's ultimatum? Why does it finally work? What does Regan do differently in this discussion with her brothers?
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