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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. How is a person communicating specific information about the Truth School killings?
(a) On the Prodigy message board.
(b) On fliers distributed at the school.
(c) On fliers distributed in the school's neighborhood.
(d) On a social media site like MySpace or Facebook.

2. What disturbance occurs while the President is on stage in New York?
(a) A shooting spree.
(b) A heckler.
(c) A riot.
(d) A bomb detonates.

3. To which group does Jack's old friend belong?
(a) The Jack and Jill task force.
(b) Sigma Phi Kappa fraternity.
(c) The Masonic Lodge.
(d) Mensa.

4. Who calls the White House to speak to the President, able to dodge all security checks?
(a) Christine.
(b) Cross.
(c) Jack.
(d) Jill.

5. Who calls the Washington, DC police regarding the specific information about the Truth School killings?
(a) The baker himself.
(b) The censor's supervisor.
(c) The principal.
(d) The cafeteria supervisor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who travels to New York with the President?

2. Who is killed at the Kennedy Center?

3. Law enforcement officials thought the murder at the Kennedy Center could have been a mistake. Who did they suspect was the real target of the attack?

4. Who do Jack and Jill get to commit their third murder?

5. What is dropped into a woman's bag at the Kennedy Center?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is unusual about the Truth School killer's attempt to enter the investigator's home? What does this show about the killer?

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

4. Why is the general's son a threat to Jack?

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

6. What does Jack's killing of the general and his son show about his character?

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

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

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

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

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