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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 do Jack and Jill get to commit their third murder?
(a) The President's mistress.
(b) Kevin Hawkins.
(c) An unknown hit man who is really an undercover cop.
(d) Jill's brother.

2. Who is carrying false FBI credentials at the President's New York speech?
(a) Cross.
(b) Kevin.
(c) Jill.
(d) Jack.

3. What is Jill found holding when her body is discovered?
(a) A baby.
(b) A gun.
(c) A poem.
(d) A knife.

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 of the way the hostage and Cross are positioned in the room.
(c) Because he has a superstition about killing more than one person per location.
(d) Because he only has one bullet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills Jill?

2. Who is killed at the Kennedy Center?

3. Who calls the White House to speak to the President, able to dodge all security checks?

4. Law enforcement officials thought the murder at the Kennedy Center could have been a mistake. Who did they suspect was the real target of the attack?

5. Who is sleeping on Cross' sun porch?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why is the general's son a threat to Jack?

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