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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. Who do Jack and Jill get to commit their third murder?
(a) Jill's brother.
(b) Kevin Hawkins.
(c) An unknown hit man who is really an undercover cop.
(d) The President's mistress.

2. Who is the hero after the capture of the Truth School killer?
(a) Cross.
(b) Danny.
(c) George.
(d) Christine.

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

4. Why do some law enforcement officials believe the Jack and Jill killings are over?
(a) They were both captured.
(b) Jill is dead and Jack is captured.
(c) The poem says so.
(d) Kevin is captured and has confessed everything.

5. What is the promise or threat that the President gets from the phone call that dodges White House security?
(a) That his assassination is already set in stone.
(b) That if he does not pardon a man, he will be killed next.
(c) The best time of his life.
(d) That his wife's lover will be killed next.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Cross' investigation of the Jack and Jill killings heats up, who investigates the school killings?

2. Who is shot and killed when the President's New York speech is interrupted?

3. What is the name of the Truth School killer?

4. What advice does Cross give the President regarding public appearances?

5. What was the occupation of the Truth School killer's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss why Hawkins is so confident at Madison Square Garden.

2. Why does the Truth School killer want to talk with the investigator?

3. How do investigators of the Kennedy Center killing confirm that the hit man indeed killed the right target? Why was this victim targeted?

4. Where is Roosevelt Military Academy located? Name two reasons it is important to this novel.

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

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

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

8. Discuss when the investigator realizes the plan and his reaction.

9. What does the note on the President's flowers sent to him at the New York hotel say, and why is the note so alarming?

10. What is the theme of the Truth School killer, and how does it explain his motive?

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