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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 is killed at the Kennedy Center?
(a) A Supreme Court Justice.
(b) The President's wife.
(c) The President's girlfriend.
(d) The President himself.

2. 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?
(a) The Supreme Court Justice.
(b) The President's wife.
(c) The President.
(d) The President's girlfriend.

3. What is the name of the Truth School killer?
(a) Alex Sampson.
(b) Sumner Moore.
(c) Danny Boudreaux.
(d) Damen Cross.

4. When does Cross learn about Jill's death?
(a) The day after the President is shot.
(b) Just before the President's speech is to begin.
(c) After the President is shot.
(d) Two days after the President is shot.

5. Who is shot and killed when the President's New York speech is interrupted?
(a) Jack.
(b) The President.
(c) Sampson.
(d) Hawkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the communications regarding the Truth School killings are removed?

2. Who does the Truth School principal watch the news with at her home?

3. What does the President forbid Cross to do?

4. What does the item held by Jill reveal to investigators?

5. Whose home does Jack sneak into in a way that is NOT characteristic of his typical murders?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does the Truth School killer have a seizure, and why is this information important to the novel?

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

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

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

10. What do investigators discover when they go to the message board subscriber's home? What does their finding imply?

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