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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 does Mitch Rapp disguise himself as?

2. What three character does Rapp meet with privately in this section?

3. What does Mitch think the politicians are trying to protect?

4. Who is Hasan disguised as?

5. What does Muammer Bengazi unload in this section?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the success of the CIA's operation depend upon?

2. Why does Israel say its position is?

3. How does Aziz react when Tutwiler phones him?

4. Describe the successful operation in the opening section.

5. Why does Kennedy think it is a bad idea that General Marge Tutwiler deals with Aziz?

6. What does Secret Service Director Tracy say in the debriefing?

7. How does the author increase the narrative pace in this section.

8. What are Aziz's demands?

9. Why is the U.S. government finding it difficult to compete with Aziz?

10. What is Dr. Jane Hornig's job?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role do you think the media plays in the political game? How can the media help in the situation portrayed in the book? What problems can they cause?

Essay Topic 2

Choose a scene from the novel and critically analyze it in terms of the following:

1) Character development

2) Plot development.

3) Its significance to the book overall

Essay Topic 3

Look at the structure of the novel.

1) How does Flynn use character and dialogue to drive the narrative?

2) Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

3) Aside from the main character, examine the way Flynn uses the other characters in the story. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have?

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