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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. Whom does Cross tell Cavalierre to call when they hear the gun blast at the house they are investigating?

2. What is Ms. Green's real name?

3. What does Jannie call the staff when they keep taking blood for tests?

4. What is Jannie doing when Cross finally arrives at the hospital after studying the crime scene of the third robbery?

5. What condition is the nanny in when she is murdered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Damon and Jannie doing when Jannie falls down? Did he mean to hurt Jannie?

2. What is the No. 1 recommendation of the American Society for Industrial Safety in the event of a robbery? How does the author bring this fact up?

3. Why does the Mastermind have Brianne and Errol do his dirty work instead of committing the horrible deeds himself?

4. How did it look to Cross and Sampson that the Mastermind killed the Parkers? Why kill them that way?

5. With which drug does the Mastermind kill the second team of bank robbers? How does the drug work?

6. Why is Mr. Blue mad at the Chase Manhattan bank manager's wife, Victoria Casselman? What does he do to her?

7. Why does the Mastermind kill the Parkers after all they had done for him?

8. What does Cross tease Nana Mama about when wakes up early the morning after finding the Parkers dead? How does she respond?

9. How many people are initially thought to have been killed in the Citibank robbery? How many were really killed by Errol Parker?

10. If the bank manager had opened the vault immediately when asked to do so, would her family have been spared? Did Brianne know what would happen to the hostages all along?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Veronica Macdougall reads a statement to the police that gets her father arrested. What motivates her to turn her father in? How does the evidence she presents implicate her father?

Essay Topic 2

Kyle Craig has been the Mastermind this whole time. How could he have used his connections and knowledge to stay ahead of the police? Cite specific examples.

Essay Topic 3

Describe Frederic Szabo's state of mind. What does he have in common with the Mastermind? What evidence supports the possibility that he is the Mastermind? What evidence points to the fact that he is not the Mastermind?

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