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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 is considered a common professional courtesy in the medical examiner's office?
(a) Inviting visiting consultants to dinner.
(b) Inviting visiting consultants to attend their church.
(c) Inviting visiting consultants to attend office staff meeting.
(d) Inviting visiting consultants home for drinks.

2. What does Dr. Marcus call the FBI Behavioral Science Unit?
(a) The Profiling Unit.
(b) The guys next door.
(c) The mentalists.
(d) The CSI people.

3. What does Scarpetta want when re examining the Paulsson body?
(a) Lots of hot coffee.
(b) A camera.
(c) A late lunch.
(d) A witness.

4. What kind of phobia does Dr. Marcus have?
(a) The fear of open spaces.
(b) The fear of closed spaces.
(c) The fear of garbage collectors and garbage trucks.
(d) The fear of spiders.

5. Why does Mrs. Paulsson go upstairs the morning of Gilly's death?
(a) She goes upstairs to feed the dog.
(b) She goes upstairs to give Gilly some cough medicine.
(c) She goes upstairs to brush her hair.
(d) She goes upstairs to brush her teeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the mud that Scarpetta and Marino walk in?

2. Who does Dr.Marcus blame for the increased frequency of his panic attacks?

3. What does Lucy leave in Kate's mailbox?

4. What does Marino do to Gilly's windowsill?

5. What did Marino eat at the FOP lounge?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the events that happen at Mrs. Paulsson's house as Marino describes them to Scarpetta.

2. Describe the evidence that Junius Eise cannot understand?

3. Describe Lucy and Frank Marino's relationship.

4. Describe the scene in the end of chapter twenty eight in which Marino is watching Scarpetta finish up gather samples at the scene of the Whitby death.

5. What does Marino and Scarpetta find in Gilly Paulsson's dresser?

6. How does the visit go when Lucy goes to see her next door neighbor?

7. Where does Lucy plant listening devices in Kate's home?

8. Describe Mrs. Paulsson's bathroom.

9. Why does Scarpetta tell Lucy she will be sorry for moving to Miami?

10. In chapter twenty-eight what does Scarpetta learn about the death of Ted Whitby?

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