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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. What was the occupation of the Truth School killer's father?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Cop.
(c) Drug dealer.
(d) Unemployed.

2. Where does Cross move his family to after receiving several hangup phone calls?
(a) The Waldorf Astoria.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) To his aunt's home across town.
(d) To the principal's house.

3. Who knocks on the principal's door at her house?
(a) A strange man.
(b) A 13-year-old boy.
(c) Jack.
(d) An old woman.

4. Who is the CIA assassin that Cross suspects as part of the Jack and Jill killings?
(a) Paul Smith.
(b) Kevin Hawkins.
(c) Jack Rosen.
(d) Sam Johnson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What disturbance occurs while the President is on stage in New York?

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

3. Why is Sampson at Cross' house when he returns from chasing a suspect?

4. Who answers the knock on the door at the principal's house?

5. Why does the killer have to choose who to shoot next after taking his hostage?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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