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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 was Lori Peterson's profession?

2. What does Scarpetta say after Marino has driven her to all the women's houses?

3. What does the laser find of Peterson's body?

4. What does Scarpetta say is the cruelest form of punishments?

5. How do Betty and Scarpetta describe the phone calls that have been received with information about the killer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene in chapter one after Mr. Peterson says he doesn't want everyone looking at his wife in the bedroom?

2. What is Scarpetta told happened to their computer system in chapter five?

3. What does Matt Peterson tell the police about his wife during the questioning in chapter four?

4. What do Scarpetta and Benton say about Marino after he has left the room in chapter five?

5. What does Scarpetta explain in chapter one that she suspects about the killer, Mr. Nobody, that they are looking for?

6. Describe the scene in chapter five when Marino becomes upset with Kay and Benton just before he storms out of the room.

7. Describe the scene in chapter two where Scarpetta is alone in the morgue.

8. In chapter one what does Scarpetta note about the victims?

9. What does Marino say he used to do for a living in chapter eight and how does that pertain to his view of the killer?

10. What does Bill Boltz say about the reporter Abby Turnbull in chapter seven?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) What is known about the killer psychologically? Is there any indication that he would have stopped killing?

Part 2) What did the author achieve by killing this character off rather than letting him be questioned?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Both Scarpetta and Abby Turnbull are career women. Describe their personalities.

Part 2) Speculate on the reasons that Abby didn't go to the police with her accusations of Bill Boltz's rape. Would Scarpetta have done the same as Abby? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

What is it that Scarpetta feels for the victims that she has had to autopsy for this murder? What does it reveal about Scarpetta that she has let it get to her on a personal level? Could part of the reason she has taken these murder's to heart be in part because she is a woman.

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