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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. Which of the killers makes way into the President's entourage in New York?
(a) Keith.
(b) Kevin.
(c) Jill.
(d) Jack.

2. Who is initially indicated as the suspected Truth School killer based on evidence reported from the specific communications?
(a) Col. Sumner.
(b) Sumner Moore.
(c) Mrs. Sumner.
(d) Damien.

3. Why does the Truth School killer feel abandoned by Cross?
(a) Because he believes Cross is his father.
(b) Because he is the killer's father.
(c) Because he is investigating the Jack and Jill murders.
(d) Because Cross was once the killer's mentor.

4. Who sees the killer at Cross' home?
(a) No one.
(b) Sampson.
(c) Nana Mama.
(d) Cross.

5. What do law enforcement officials discover about the murder victim at the Kennedy Center?
(a) She hated poetry.
(b) She was the President's mistress.
(c) She had been a member of the Secret Service in the past.
(d) She was Jill's sister.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Jack kill a young boy?

3. Who sees the specific information that is communicated regarding the Truth School killings?

4. Which nearby school does an investigator visit to see if any teachers witnessed anything unusual around the time of the Truth School killings?

5. Who does the Truth School killer shoot first at the Johnson residence?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why do investigators first assume that Hawkins missed his true target in the Kennedy Center?

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

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