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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 La Preveza say about the Roman policiers?
(a) They are beautiful.
(b) They are ugly.
(c) She writes them.
(d) She has never heard of them.

2. Who is A. Vazoff?
(a) A bank manager.
(b) A politician.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A policeman.

3. What was the name of the man that was hanged for a crime he said Dimitrios committed?
(a) Dick.
(b) Dhris.
(c) Chris.
(d) Davis.

4. What is the purpose of Mr. Peters' visit?
(a) To kill Latimer.
(b) To give Latimer his contact information.
(c) To scare Latimer.
(d) To find out what Latimer knows.

5. What is on the third note that Peters gives Latimer?
(a) A letter of commendation.
(b) A warrant for his arrest.
(c) Peters' contact information in France.
(d) A check for half a million francs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What business does Marukakis suspect was behind the coup d'etat?

2. What is rumored about Colonel Haki?

3. What does the Colonel say is the difference between a real criminal and a storybook criminal?

4. How do the police identify the body in the river?

5. What year was the assassination attempt on Stambulisky?

Short Essay Questions

1. What crime does Colonel Haki read to Latimer, who says it would take courage to perform? What does Colonel Haki say about this?

2. Where do Latimer and Marukakis go to meet Irana Preveza? What type of business is this? How does Latimer feel about it?

3. What important person does Marukakis locate in Sofia? What does this person know about Dimitrios?

4. Where does Latimer go in hopes of corroborating some of the facts Peters told him about how he met Dimitrios? What does he find there?

5. Who helps Latimer find the refugee records of Dimitrios? What name does Latimer find him under?

6. What does Peters tell Latimer about the French Identification card found with the body in the river? How does he prove this?

7. For what three reasons did Latimer become a professional writer?

8. How did Dimitrios double-cross Peters and the rest of the crew? Who is the body in the photograph Peters shows Latimer?

9. When Latimer confronts Mr. Peters in his Paris hotel room, what does he threaten him with? What does Peters suggest?

10. Where does the identification card from Dimitrios' refugee records say he was born? What crime does it say he committed?

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