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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 did Oswald deny during his interrogation?
(a) Being married.
(b) Killing Officer Tippit.
(c) Remembering anything.
(d) Killing the President.

2. What does Posner say of Oswald's attitude during the interrogation?
(a) He was asking for a lawyer.
(b) He was not talking.
(c) He was cocky.
(d) He was afraid.

3. What does Posner say of Jim Garrison in Chapter 18?
(a) He was paranoid.
(b) He was communist.
(c) He was a colorful New Orleans character.
(d) He was happy in marriage.

4. How many witnesses were heard by the fact finding commission?
(a) 357 witnesses.
(b) 459 witnesses.
(c) 552 witnesses.
(d) 259 witnesses.

5. What kind of analysis was used to prove that one bullet could have caused both Kennedy's and Connally's wounds?
(a) Bullet factor analysis.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Failure analysis.
(d) Sound wave analysis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fell off a gurney as Governor Connally was being taken to surgery?

2. Who removed the body from the Hospital after Kennedy's death?

3. What does Posner say evidence indicates about the first shot?

4. What was the first priority of the interrogators talking to Oswald?

5. Where was Lyndon Johnson sworn in as President?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were two controversial issues according to Posner in Chapter 14?

2. How much time did Oswald need?

3. What did NBC begin to expose?

4. What was happening to Governor Connally and how was it significant?

5. What did they find in the garage at the Paine house?

6. What did many early critics believe about the assassination and what did it lead to?

7. What did failure analysis indicate?

8. What did Oswald's behavior lead Marina to believe?

9. What did the electrocardiogram show according to Chapter 13?

10. How did the Commission divide its tasks?

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