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

2. Why do some law enforcement officials believe the Jack and Jill killings are over?
(a) They were both captured.
(b) Kevin is captured and has confessed everything.
(c) The poem says so.
(d) Jill is dead and Jack is captured.

3. After the Kennedy Center killing, where do investigators begin to search for suspects?
(a) Readers of The Catcher and the Rye.
(b) The pool of CIA hit men.
(c) People who had been fired by the Secret Service.
(d) Foreign embassies.

4. Why does the killer have to choose who to shoot next after taking his hostage?
(a) Because he likes the drama of flipping a coin.
(b) Because he has a superstition about killing more than one person per location.
(c) Because of the way the hostage and Cross are positioned in the room.
(d) Because he only has one bullet.

5. What is the name of Christine's husband?
(a) Sumner.
(b) George.
(c) Alex.
(d) John.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the President forbid Cross to do?

2. Who escapes through the Holland Tunnel after the President's New York speech is interrupted?

3. How many New York City police officers greet the President at the airport?

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

5. What is the Vice President's name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does the investigator arrange a situation in which he could take down the Truth School killer? Explain this reasoning.

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

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

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

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