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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. Where does Cross move his family to after receiving several hangup phone calls?
(a) To his aunt's home across town.
(b) The Waldorf Astoria.
(c) To the principal's house.
(d) Nowhere.

2. What is on the new suspect's bed when investigators go to his house?
(a) A diary.
(b) The dead girl's shirt.
(c) A bullet.
(d) A poem.

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

4. When does Cross learn about Jill's death?
(a) The day after the President is shot.
(b) Just before the President's speech is to begin.
(c) After the President is shot.
(d) Two days after the President is shot.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cross listen to after the President gets the phone call that dodges White House security ?

2. Who calls the Washington, DC police regarding the specific information about the Truth School killings?

3. Why does Jack need to kill his old friend?

4. Who does the Truth School killer hold for ransom?

5. Who does Jack meet in his own hotel room that he hugs?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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