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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. Why can't Alex sleep?
(a) He is obsessing about Joanna.
(b) He is worried about the threat on his life.
(c) He is worried about his business if he doesn't leave soon.
(d) He thinks he will divorce his wife.

2. What is Joanna's response?
(a) She does not understand why Alex calls her by the wrong name.
(b) She agrees that she is in an emotional state at the moment.
(c) She gets irate.
(d) She pretends to not hear Alex.

3. What is the phone call to Alex about the next morning?
(a) A plea to leave Joanna alone or they will have to kill her.
(b) The FBI telling him to back off from investigating Joanna.
(c) A statement that Alex is about to receive a warning to stay away from Joanna.
(d) His office saying he has to get back to the States immediately.

4. How can Joanna afford to open a nightclub?
(a) Money from a divorce settlement.
(b) Money from good investing in the stock market.
(c) Money from her deceased husband.
(d) From an inheritance from her parents.

5. Who calls Carrera?
(a) Marlowe.
(b) Alex.
(c) Mariko.
(d) Wayne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is waiting for Joanna to start her first set of the night?

2. What is Carrera's response to his caller's concerns?

3. Why is Kennedy refusing medical assistance?

4. Where is Joanna born?

5. Why does Alex not want to rush their relationship?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Alex and Joanna do after eating lunch?

2. What evidence does Joanna show Alex and what does he do with it?

3. What does Joanna do in response to her depression and her decision to push Alex away?

4. Emotionally, how might the reader respond to the malice Carrera seems to carry?

5. What does Alex tell Joanna about Thomas Chelgrin and his daugther?

6. Who is Mariko Inamura to Joanna and what does she suggest to Joanna?

7. What has happened to Wayne Kennedy and how is he reacting to it?

8. How is the tension increased by the end of Chapter 17?

9. What new character is introduced in Chapter 32 and what might the reader suspect about him and why?

10. With all the evidence in place, what does Mariko suggests? What might this foreshadow and what is the ultimate outcome?

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