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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. How did the torpedoes find the Venice?

2. Who had threatened before to lock out Congress?

3. What does Pitt do for Al Giordino after he raises the Eagle?

4. What is a cottage called in Russian?

5. How is the government going to keep the public from prying in regards to the President who has denied Press opportunities?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did it become obvious that Suvorov was acting under what he thought was the best interests of the Soviet government?

2. What is described in Chapter 25?

3. What is Fawcett's argument against making the statement to the press?

4. What is the joke circling around Europe and why is it circulating?

5. What alerts Mangyai to the imminent Russian plot?

6. How does the SAP machine function, in layman's terms?

7. Why did the Russians monitor people who were working closely for them in America?

8. What is Hemlock the most well known for? How was the Hemlock administered to the victims?

9. What are the two options for the Bougainville shipping company in regard to Vice President Margolin?

10. How did Moran nurture a carefully controlled public image?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how the setting of the sinking of the Leonid Andreyev made it ideal to not bend the reality of the situation to the breaking point. How did the setting contribute to the rescue of the survivors? How did it also provide a good backdrop for Pitt to be a hero?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Alan Moran's duplicity between who he is in the public eye, and who he is behind closed doors. Suggest reasons for this dual personality. Speculate on the necessity of this behavior.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the influence of Dirk's friends throughout the novel. How might he have been stonewalled several times if not for their timely information and skills? Explain how the plot would have been affected if Dirk wouldn't have had such knowledgeable people backing him and looking things up for him.

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