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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. Who was the agent who was sent to investigate the boat?

2. What ship was the boiler registered as going into?

3. What was the body count on the auto ferry?

4. By whom was the young woman escorted around the deck?

5. What connects the San Marino and the Pilottown?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Pitt want to send out a press release regarding the Pilottown and the San Marino?

2. Describe the President.

3. Why did she feign sickness?

4. What did the President want to discuss with the people on board the Eagle?

5. Why should Polevoi have joined the Foreign Ministry instead of the Secret Police?

6. What is Margolin's final argument regarding the proposal of the President?

7. Why wasn't Mendoza with Pitt and his crew as they discovered the Pilottown?

8. How does the President have domestic enemies?

9. Why were the microphones near the agents' wrists?

10. How does the government plan to keep the President's disappearance a secret?

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

Compare and contrast the influence of Al Giordino and Admiral Sandecker. How do they come through for Dirk? How has Dirk come through for them? Describe their relationship with Dirk, and how it affects the development of the plot.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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