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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. What are Hal, Eva and Burnham waiting for while they are eating Chinese food?

2. What Tom Sawyer character does Dyanna's new behavior remind Burnham of?

3. After he speaks with ABC, what does Pym hope that Eva will do?

4. What does Ivy do when she hears the news about the document leaks?

5. What does Pym mean when he told Eva the Soviets may dump them?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pym know that Teal appreciates the information he has given him?

2. What occurs in Chapter 8 that lets us know that Burnham is definitely "in" with the President?

3. What gives Burnham the courage to tell Eva he has put her under investigation by the FBI?

4. Why does Eva say that the President might have really loved Burnham?

5. How does Ivy come to be on the evening news?

6. Describe why Burnham is not fired after that first meeting with the President.

7. Why will Burnham not turn Eva in after she confessed she was a spy?

8. What does Burnham do after he steals the tapes he needs to blackmail Epstein?

9. What is Pym relieved about when he called Teal?

10. Is it surprising that the couple in the car Burnham saw on his way into the apartment turn out to be working for Epstein?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eva had a colorful political life in her younger years, ending with her eventually being arrested for intending to blow up the Glen Canyon Dam.

1) How does this effect Eva's relationship to Pym?

2) Do Eva and Burnham have anything in common politically? Cite examples from the book.

3) What do you think Eva will do when she doesn't have to be a spy anymore?

Essay Topic 2

What does the President mean at the press conference when he jokes about wishing he could put the First Amendment on hold?

1) What is happening when the President jokes about this?

2) Who is the President speaking to when he makes this joke?

3) From what you know about the President, was there any truth in this statement?

Essay Topic 3

Burnham always seems to be in the right place at the right time. Through a series of semi-comical events, his career as a speech writer causes him to become the President's right hand man.

Part 1) What role does Dyanna play in Burnham's success and what is she motivated by?

Part 2) Is Burnham interested in being so close to the President and does this change in the course of the book?

Part 3) Who is Burnham's favorite author and how does this influence his advice to the President?

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