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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Benjamin Raspail's car?
(a) It was smashed into a cube.
(b) It was sold to a reckless teenager who wrecked it.
(c) It was parked in an impound lot and forgotten.
(d) It was sold three times and finally tracked to the latest owner.

2. Where and how does Starling find the bug cocoon?
(a) In the girl's vagina while doing a sexual assault work-up.
(b) In the girl's hair while looking for trace evidence.
(c) Deep in the girl's throat while taking pictures for dental analysis.
(d) In the girl's ear while taking pictures for family identification.

3. What question does Buffalo Bill ask of the girl he abducts in Chapter 15?
(a) If she likes popcorn.
(b) If she is about a size fourteen.
(c) If she is a Chianti drinker.
(d) If her mother knows that she is smoking hashish.

4. Describe Dr. Lecter's "lodgings" and "uniform" while his cell is being cleaned.
(a) Bound to a mover's hand truck with a straightjacket, leg restraints, canvas webbing, and over his face, a hockey mask.
(b) He is cuffed to a pole, wearing a straightjacket and a gag.
(c) He is locked in a plexiglass box wearing only underwear.
(d) He is moved to another cell, wearing the typical hospital whites.

5. What is the name of the brilliant serial killer housed in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane?
(a) Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
(b) Ted Bundy.
(c) Jame Gumb.
(d) Buffalo Bill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Clarice's roommate?

2. Who accompanies Clarice to the storage facility?

3. The flutist for the Baltimore Philharmonic was missing two organs when he was discovered. What were the organs?

4. The last time that Barney was sent away, what happened?

5. What are the entomologists using to play chess?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think Clarice sees Crawford as a father figure? Why or why not?

2. What benefits comprise the proposal package that Clarice puts together for Dr. Lecter in Senator Martin's name, and what is unique about the vacation spot?

3. How does Senator Martin try to affect Buffalo Bill psychologically?

4. What is an imago, and how does this relate to Buffalo Bill?

5. Though Dr. Lecter does not believe the senator's offer is genuine because Crawford would never allow Dr. Lecter to benefit, for what does Dr. Lecter agree to offer his cooperation in exchange for, and how does he begin collecting on the proposal immediately?

6. Do you think that Clarice's actions at the storage space were born out of desperation?

7. What did Dr. Lecter do for a living before he was imprisoned as a serial killer? What repercussions might be the result of his previous employment?

8. How does Dr. Lecter work his way into the Buffalo Bill investigation when his only purpose to the FBI was to be as a tool for study through his psychological evaluation? Again, how does he show his disdain for law enforcement? If he is so anti-authority, why does he speak with Clarice?

9. How does Clarice demonstrate her resourcefulness at the storage unit crime scene?

10. What might the Black Witch Moth symbolize to Buffalo Bill?

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