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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. Where is the Truth School killer hiding?
(a) At the principal's house.
(b) In Cross' garage.
(c) In the Sumner home.
(d) In his foster parents' attic.

2. How many New York City police officers greet the President at the airport?
(a) About 50.
(b) More than 450.
(c) More than 300.
(d) About 150.

3. Who does the Truth School killer hold for ransom?
(a) Cross' own children.
(b) A child from the school
(c) Cross.
(d) The principal.

4. What happens to the killer after he shoots his hostage?
(a) He runs.
(b) He falls and cries.
(c) He shoots himself.
(d) He has a seizure.

5. Why is Sampson at Cross' house when he returns from chasing a suspect?
(a) To pick him up for the weekly poker game.
(b) He wants to take him to dinner.
(c) Threats have been made on the Cross family.
(d) He has good news for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills Jill?

2. Why does Jack kill a young boy?

3. Where does Cross move his family to after receiving several hangup phone calls?

4. How old is the Truth School killer?

5. What is the promise or threat that the President gets from the phone call that dodges White House security?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Jack and Jill get another person to act as hit man in one of their murders?

2. How does the killer respond when the message board censor removes vivid postings regarding the Truth School murders?

3. Why does the Truth School killer have abandonment issues?

4. Why does the President decide to honor all of his scheduled appearances? Is this vanity or valor, and why?

5. Why do investigators first assume that Hawkins missed his true target in the Kennedy Center?

6. Why does the Secret Service continue moving the President through the tunnel against the investigator's advice?

7. What is unusual about Jill's phone call to the President?

8. Explain the plan that Jack will use to kill the President.

9. Briefly discuss the marital problems between the Johnsons. Why are these problems important to this novel?

10. Why doesn't the message board censor go directly to police with the information when it first starts appearing?

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