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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. Where does the car accident with Walker and Eric and Nina Gage happen?
2. Before their romantic evening, how does Regan view Alec?
3. How does Regan get to sleep after Alec leaves her bedroom?
4. What do the police find on Eric Gage's kitchen table?
5. What does the witness say about the car accident that Walker was involved in?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Morris when talking to Regan from the bar, who put the pictures of Sweeney on Aiden's desk? What does this tell us about Emily? How is Emily involved?
2. After their evening of romance, Alec leaves. What does Regan realize when Alec leaves?
3. When Alec and Regan are flying to Boston for Regan to meet Alec's family, why does she tell him about her first day at kindergarten and the bully and the barrettes?
4. When it is revealed for the first time who the "beast" is, and how does that change the story?
5. Where will Alec and Regan live when they move to Boston and what will Regan do for a living?
6. After Morris is caught, Gil, Alec's old partner, is still snooping around. What does he discover that could mean that the police have arrested the wrong man?
7. After making love in Chapter 35, Alec gets up to go to the bathroom. What does Regan think and why? How does this reaction play into Regan and her family dynamics?
8. As Nina watches the news bulletin on TV she sees the body of Eric being loaded into the ambulance, but is unmoved. What is Nina waiting to hear or see, and why?
9. When the killer fires his gun into the ravine, he realizes that will not work. Why?
10. Why does the killer want to prolong Regan's death? Why does he want her to suffer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the connections of the killer's crate (later the shoebox.) What does the killer collect? Why does the killer collect these items? Since these items would tie the killer to the victims, why would he hang on to them?
Essay Topic 2
On "Our Murder List," the killer puts a question mark next to Shields and the bodyguards. What do you think this means? Are these people in danger? Should they be warned? Why or why not? Nobody seems to react to it at all. Is this a mistake?
Essay Topic 3
Dr. Shields asked the participants of his program to write down a "murder list." Cordie, Sophie, and Regan all wrote different things. What does each girl write and how are they different? Why does Regan feel like a fool when she realizes she is the only one to use real names? Do you think other people in the room used real names?
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