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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 will Madam Bougainville least expect?

2. What sense is missing in dreams?

3. What habit did the Presidential stand-in have that the President does not?

4. What connection has Pitt made between all the ships in question?

5. What two places is the Andreyev going to dock?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Moran nurture a carefully controlled public image?

2. How did Pitt determine the boat and who was on board?

3. How did it become obvious that Suvorov was acting under what he thought was the best interests of the Soviet government?

4. Why was it of special dismay to Lugovoy that his deadline was moved up?

5. Why did Pitt order the four people into the shower?

6. How did the President stop Congress from convening?

7. What alerts Mangyai to the imminent Russian plot?

8. What is Hemlock the most well known for? How was the Hemlock administered to the victims?

9. How did Admiral Sandecker know that Pitt had been on board the Eagle?

10. What happened to Oskar Belkaya?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the influence of Dirk's friends throughout the novel. How might he have been stonewalled several times if not for their timely information and skills? Explain how the plot would have been affected if Dirk wouldn't have had such knowledgeable people backing him and looking things up for him.

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

Explain Pitt's loss of his Talbot-Lago from a psychological level. What does his answer to the cocktail waitress describe about his personality? How does he view his vehicles?

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