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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 is dropped into a woman's bag at the Kennedy Center?
(a) A ransom note.
(b) A poem.
(c) A gun.
(d) A bullet.

2. Where is the Truth School killer hiding?
(a) In Cross' garage.
(b) In his foster parents' attic.
(c) In the Sumner home.
(d) At the principal's house.

3. What is the Vice President's name?
(a) Malone.
(b) Stalone.
(c) Maroney.
(d) Mahoney.

4. Who calls the Washington, DC police regarding the specific information about the Truth School killings?
(a) The censor's supervisor.
(b) The principal.
(c) The cafeteria supervisor.
(d) The baker himself.

5. Why is Sampson at Cross' house when he returns from chasing a suspect?
(a) Threats have been made on the Cross family.
(b) He wants to take him to dinner.
(c) He has good news for him.
(d) To pick him up for the weekly poker game.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is disguised as a woman at the President's New York speech?

2. Who is the CIA assassin that Cross suspects as part of the Jack and Jill killings?

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

4. Who is initially indicated as the suspected Truth School killer based on evidence reported from the specific communications?

5. Who is the hero after the capture of the Truth School killer?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain the plan that Jack will use to kill the President.

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

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

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

7. Why is the general who is killed a threat to Jack?

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

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

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

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