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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 the Delta Force fire at the car that holds the political official they assassinate?

2. Who reveals himself as the controller in Chapter 121?

3. What does Senator Sexton do to Gabrielle when she suggests holding onto the information about the meteorite until Rachel is safe?

4. Whose machine gun goes overboard after boarding the Goya?

5. What is the secret service acronym for the president that Gabrielle tries as a password for the Senator's computer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gabrielle get into Senator Sexton's office computer?

2. While on an airplane headed for Washington, what reason does Corky give for believing the rock is still a meteorite?

3. How is Rachel able to send a fax telling the truth about the meteorite?

4. What do the scientists on the Goya discover after finding a photo of an organism similar to the meteorite?

5. How does Rachel describe the expander cycle engine to Michael and Corky?

6. How are the hammerhead sharks that surround the Goya described regarding their sense of smell?

7. How is the Delta Fore assassination described in Chapter 96?

8. How does Michael capture Delta Three?

9. How does Gabrielle get to the fourth floor of NASA headquarters?

10. Why does William Pickering tell Rachel he is lying about the meteorite when he reveals himself as the controller?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

True to its title, the book does a good job of deceiving the readers leading them down many paths with no real truth and honesty found.

Part 1.) How does the author deceive the reader with characters like Marjorie Tench and Lawrence Ekstrom who seemed motivated to falsify the meteorite finding?

Part 2.) How does the author present several levels of deception in the book with the inclusion of Senator Sexton's bribery scheme?

Part 3.) What might the author be saying about the nature of politics and power based on his portrayal of deception in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the book, the controller has literally been in control of every action that has taken place in the book.

Part 1.) What impact does the controller have on the Delta Force's actions in the book?

Part 2.) What purpose did the author have for having a hidden controller present throughout the entire book?

Part 3.) What is telling about the nature of government conspiracy in the book based on the reveal of William Pickering as the controller?

Essay Topic 3

Examine Rachel's fear of open water in the book. What purpose does the author have for giving one of the protagonists such a debilitating fear in the book?

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