Crime Story Chapter Answers and Plot Details

Chapter 1

1. 1 – e; 2 – f; 3 – a; 4 – c; 5 – b; 6 – d
2. 1. Maxine/Grabowski
   2. Maxine
   3. Rolondo’s girlfriend, Rosa
   4. Rolondo

Chapter 2

1. 1 – c; 2 – g; 3 – e; 4 – a; 5 – d; 6 – f; 7 – b
2. It used to be a middle-class area, but now it is a poor and dangerous part of town.
3. Student’s own answer.

Chapter 3

1. Smooth shapes of wood painted in different colours; the largest consists of twelve chairs tied together and suspended from the ceiling.
2. Twelve life-size heads made of clay, with glass eyes and shell teeth; they stand on tall platforms and are painted white, brown, or black.
3. 1. Maxine
   2. Soren Berendorf
   3. Lillian Hockstedder
   4. Louie
   5. Helen Mueller
4. He was standing by the food table.
5. Because there were so many people.
6. Student’s own answer.
7. Student’s own answer.

Chapter 4

1. 1. False
   2. True
   3. False
   4. True
   5. True
   6. False
2. He goes to give blood for Wyoming; he'd done it when they were teenagers and Wyoming was in a car accident.

Chapter 5

1. 1: well-trained; 2: unconscious; 3: sharp; 4: sensitive; 5: serious; 6: nice
2. Because he was seen touching the rope.
3. Because he never thanked Louie for his help – he only liked important people.

Chapter 6

1. Scratching his arms; biting his nails.
2. Why Louie was so nervous; why Lillian stood by Soren at the piano for a long time.
3. Because he could hear them from his kitchen.
4. Her painting went downhill and stopped selling.
5. She wanted to own the gallery by herself.
6. 1. Lillian
   2. Helen
7. Student’s own answer.

Chapter 7

1. 1: a – 3; b – 4; c – 1; d – 5; e – 2
2. 1. He wanted Helen to break the agreement and ruin her business.
   2. She moved away from the piano before the chairs fell.
   3. She had said she wanted to kill Soren.
3. Student’s own answer.
4. To the Police Crime Lab to check about the rope and take the knives in for examination.
5. It wasn’t done by a local gang (Rosa didn’t recognise either the man who shot them or the driver).

Chapter 8

1. 1: Lillian and Helen; 2: Koranda’s neighbour; 3: Louie; 4: The captain of detectives; 5: The art store owner; 6: Helen; 7: Officer Koranda
2. Because he thinks it’s just another gang shooting.
3. Student’s own answer.

Chapter 9

1. She died of an overdose of INH. She didn’t have TB.
2. Louie. Because he took an overdose of sleeping tablets after an earlier fight, and she thinks he might do it again.
3. Jealous (though not actually stated in text).
4. A man wrapped in a blanket in a box.
5. She calls an ambulance and runs to get Grabowski.
6. Louie is there. The man in the box has gone.
7. Student’s own answer.