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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 does John's friend from the NYPD believe was the cause of the crash of Flight 800?
(a) A cargo door that fell off.
(b) Mechanical failure.
(c) A methane bubble.
(d) Friendly fire from a military exercise.

2. What is the CIA's explanation for the hundreds of witness reports that claim to have seen the same thing?
(a) An optical illusion.
(b) A short circuit.
(c) Pilot error.
(d) A freak storm.

3. What is significant about the relationship between the two lovers on the beach?
(a) They are both politicians.
(b) They are both married to other people.
(c) They are both legally separated.
(d) They are both teachers.

4. What promise was Kate able to extract from Koenig with the understanding that both she and John would accept their new assignments?
(a) That she and John would be allowed to choose their next assignment.
(b) That she and John would be assigned to New York for two years.
(c) That she and John would be allowed to work as partners in the future.
(d) That she and John would never be assigned to separate locations again.

5. What does Kate think of the theory that what hundreds of witnesses saw was an optical illusion?
(a) Kate believes it.
(b) Kate believes it is partially correct.
(c) Kate believes it is an excuse to hide the truth.
(d) Kate does not believe it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What theory does Kate claim is in a category all its own?

2. What is the accepted cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800 as discussed by Kate and John in Chapter 3?

3. What do John and Kate promise to do if they are approached about the re-investigation into the crash of Flight 800?

4. For whom does John Corey work?

5. Who made the video John watches that refutes mechanical failure as the cause of the crash of Flight 800?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kate tell John about how she came to know about the police finding the blanket from Bayview Hotel on the beach the night of the crash?

2. Who does John ask Fanelli to find and for what purpose?

3. What does Tom Spruck, a retired naval officer, tell John he saw the night Flight 800 crashed?

4. Who is Sidney R. Siben and how does he discredit eye witness reports of an object flying toward the plane from the ocean?

5. What did the police find on a public beach within view of the plane crash that Kate now feels is significant to the investigation?

6. Why does John insist that a videotape of the crash of TWA Flight 800 might not be the key piece of evidence Kate hopes it will be?

7. What is the CIA's theory as to the orange light many witnesses reported seeing coming from the ocean toward the plane?

8. What are the seven theories of the plane crash that Kate tells John?

9. What does Koenig imply about Kate's relationship with Ted Nash during his meeting with John to go over his assignment in Yemen?

10. Why do John Corey and Kate Mayfield go to a memorial on the beach each year?

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