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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 does the item held by Jill reveal to investigators?
(a) That Jack and Jill are running away.
(b) That Jack and Jill are getting married.
(c) That Jack and Jill want ransom money.
(d) That she killed herself.

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

3. Who does Cross visit when he has trouble sleeping?
(a) Nana Mama.
(b) Heather.
(c) Jill.
(d) Christine.

4. What question remains in Cross' mind after a gunman is found dead in the tunnel where the President escaped?
(a) If the President's wife is actually Jill.
(b) Whether the dead woman was Jill.
(c) Whether the President will live or die.
(d) Whether Hawkins was really Jack.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is carrying false FBI credentials at the President's New York speech?

3. What is Jill found holding when her body is discovered?

4. What is the name of Christine's husband?

5. Who travels to New York with the President?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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 the note on the President's flowers sent to him at the New York hotel say, and why is the note so alarming?

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

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

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

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

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