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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. How many American dollars worth of Russian gold is at stake?

2. Who was Pitt's on again-off again lover?

3. How many men had surrounded the young woman?

4. How did the luxurious accommodations also serve as a prison?

5. Why had the young woman been nervous when she had boarded the boat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Larimer's position on western Europe?

2. How did the young woman pull off the heist?

3. Describe Madame Bougainville.

4. Why did she feign sickness?

5. Where else was Lee mentioned?

6. Why does Oscar Lucas have such sway in regard to the President?

7. What was strange and different regarding the Catawba's boarding of the Amie Marie?

8. What do Min Koryo and Lee Tong deduce about Dirk's plot?

9. What was strange about the condition of the Pilottown?

10. How does the President have domestic enemies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how the public would react to a missing Head of State. How is the public's reaction to the President's disappearance realistic? How is it fictional?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the plot of the novel. Could it have been improved and how or why not? What specific elements did you like or dislike, and why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the ecological fallout that isn't discussed regarding nerve agent S. What kinds of things were avoided being talked about regarding the spill? How would a cleanup of the chemical been next to impossible, and how would the loss of marine life have changed the coast of Alaska and British Columbia forever?

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