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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. Who else shows up to meet Kate's plane?

2. What does John later learn happened to Jill?

3. What does John tell Kate about the investigation?

4. What question does John want to ask this person on the beach in Chapter 40 that he chooses not to verbalize?

5. What does the maid tell John she found in an ashtray when she cleaned Room 203?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John hear as he approaches the North Tower a few minutes behind Jill and Kate?

2. What does Nash ask of John when he hears the title of the movie John plans to allow him to view at their meeting?

3. What does Kate have to say about the conspiracy to hide the tape when John is done catching her up on the case?

4. What threat does Koenig make to John when they speak the day before the scheduled meeting?

5. On what day does John return from Yemen? Why is this day significant?

6. Where does John take Jill after ditching his car in a university parking lot?

7. What does John find at home after searching all day for Kate?

8. Who all does John tell Jill will be at the meeting the following day?

9. What question plagues John as he waits for Dom Fanelli to locate Jill Winslow?

10. Where does John go after speaking to Nash?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Bayview Hotel. What is the Bayview Hotel? What role does this hotel play in the investigation both when the crash happened and five years later when John begins re-investigating? Why did the FBI focus on this hotel? Why are all the employees who came into direct contact with the videotaping couple disappear? Why can John not find the records that deal with these employees or with the FBI agents who stayed at the hotel during the initial investigation? What does this imply about the actions of the original investigators?

Essay Topic 2

Write a descriptive passage that discusses the motivation of one of the following characters and how that motivation impacts the development of the plot:

1) John Corey

2) Kate Mayfield

3) Jack Koenig

4) Ted Nash

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Jack Koenig. Why does Koenig dislike John? Why do John and Koenig get into disagreements several times in the novel? Why does Koenig send John to Yemen? What might John have been able to prevent if he had finished his investigation into Flight 800 instead of going to Yemen? What was Jack Koenig afraid John might discover? Why does John invite Koenig to the final meeting regarding the VCR tape? What does John think Koenig will do with the tape?

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