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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 is Berger the director of?

2. What is the name of the Vietnam prison where David Hudson was tortured in 1971?

3. What is the name of the drug dealer Sommers and Carroll arrest?

4. What country does Margarita Kupchuck work for as an Intelligence agent?

5. What does Monserrat kill Isabella with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information do Carroll and Caitlin receive about Pyotr Andronov?

2. What interrupts David's war memories?

3. How does Caitlin and Carroll convince Freddie to tell them everything he knows about Chevron ?

4. Why does Harry Stemkowsky wait for David Hudson in the rain?

5. Why does Carroll resign his position?

6. How do the American Intelligence agents get information back to Washington?

7. What does Hudson urge the vets to do while traveling?

8. What information does Isabella give to Carroll?

9. Why do the officials decide to suspend trading on Wall Street?

10. How did Caitlin become the director of the SEC's security force?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the time period? How does Patterson use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

What problems would a stock market crash cause the world economy and why? Are there any countries that would benefit from a stock market crash? How does the stock market try to safe guard against stock market crashes?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following and examine their real life equivalent and how Patterson to fit in with the ideas of Balck Friday.

1) The CIA.

2) The stock market

3) The Vietnam Veterans

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