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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 does Alex want as a snack in Director Burns' office?
(a) Hot coffee and a Danish.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A Mars bar.
(d) Two bagels and a hot chocolate.

2. Alex strikes up a conversation with a plant supervisor from H & K about the plight of the _____.
(a) Stray dogs in town.
(b) The gun industry.
(c) Carolina Panthers.
(d) The stock market.

3. What calms the Three Blind Mice as Kym asks about the owner?
(a) The music on the CD player.
(b) The darkness outside.
(c) Sedatives.
(d) Alcohol.

4. What funny picture does Jannie have on the fridge door that Alex sees when getting a beer?
(a) A giant thumb growing in a garden.
(b) A wet dog.
(c) A flying pig.
(d) A pregnant stork.

5. What does Director Burns call the moving of the Ghost Shadows' headquarters from coffee shop to coffee shop in Canal Street?
(a) Evasive maneuvers.
(b) Micro-terrorism.
(c) Malignant presence.
(d) Roving turf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Nana used to teach?

2. What hotel do Alex and John check into on the West Point grounds?

3. What does Billie make for her and John to drink?

4. In written form, the army careers of the Three Blind Mice are _____.

5. Who is shot first in the Georgia cabin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the press in Vietnam fail to capture the real stories there, in the author's view?

2. What does Colonel Handler look like and what is his history as Alex knows it from the West Point website?

3. Why is there conflict initially between Nana and Alex about Nana wanting Dr. Coles to be her physician?

4. What is the attitude of the translator at the Vietnam Embassy? What makes her attitude change?

5. Why does Alex apologize for being rude to Dr. Coles and how does she react?

6. How does Alex finally come across the names of the Three Blind Mice?

7. Why is it a surprise to Alex and John that Marc Sherman shows up at the cabin the Three Blind Mice share in the woods and what happens to him?

8. What happens when Harris says "nobody gets hurt" when he threatens the people who work at Asia House with a gun? Do the Three Blind Mice do this kind of thing throughout the book?

9. What does Billie find one night when she goes out to search for her husband when he failed to return from a fishing trip?

10. What was life like for Tran Van Luu as a child in Vietnam?

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