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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 sleeping on Cross' sun porch?
(a) Nana Mama.
(b) The family's pit bull.
(c) Sampson.
(d) Cross.

2. Who kills Jill?
(a) Jack.
(b) Kevin.
(c) Cross.
(d) Sampson.

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

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

5. Why is the hit man forced to shoot sooner?
(a) The bullet falls out of the woman's purse.
(b) The woman sees the note and reads it.
(c) The woman spots the poem.
(d) The woman reports the gun to the Secret Service.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Cross visit when he has trouble sleeping?

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

3. What decision does the President make, disregarding Cross' previous advice?

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

5. How many times is the President shot?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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