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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. Dr. Coles makes house calls in _____.
(a) The Baltimore metro area.
(b) The Anacostia District.
(c) The Southeast.
(d) The Bronx.

2. Jamilla tells Alex about a case she is working on where an Irish tourist gets killed in the _____ in San Francisco.
(a) Mission Disctict.
(b) Sunset District.
(c) Castro.
(d) Tenderloin.

3. What is the name of Nana's dead husband?
(a) Charles.
(b) Eric.
(c) Gary.
(d) John.

4. Alex knows a fair amount about heart disease because of his days at _____.
(a) The Mayo Clinic.
(b) Johns Hopkins.
(c) Brandeis.
(d) University of Maryland.

5. What does "EE" mean in military jargon?
(a) Eventual extraction.
(b) Every exit.
(c) Evade and escape.
(d) Evacuate and elude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Alex said to himself right from the start regarding his current investigations?

2. How does John categorize the army Rangers in regards to their motto about themselves?

3. What is the map designation for Robert Bennett's house at West Point?

4. What is stenciled on the bouncer's clothes in the Asia House?

5. What song do Billie and John dance to on the porch?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Starkey love West Point?

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

4. What is the one mistake Nana says she made in her life?

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

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

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

8. What gives Robert Bennett a split second of hope as he and his wife are being brutally attacked by the Three Blind Mice and what happens to dash it?

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

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

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