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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Truth School killer?

2. Why does the killer have to choose who to shoot next after taking his hostage?

3. Who does the Truth School killer shoot first at the Johnson residence?

4. What assumption does Cross make from the phone call that the President receives?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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 want to talk with the investigator?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define symbolism. Discuss fathers as a symbol in Jack and Jill. How does this symbol relate to the story? Why is this an important aspect of symbolism in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motive of the Jack and Jill killers. How did their inside position help them in their mission to kill the President? What was there motive for killing him? Why did they murder others if their ultimate goal was the President?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the genre of Jack and Jill and the sub-genre category under which the novel falls. Is there another genre the novel might also be classified as? Support your answers.

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