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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. How does the President receive a message from Jack and Jill in New York?

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

3. How many New York City police officers greet the President at the airport?

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

5. Whose home does Jack sneak into in a way that is NOT characteristic of his typical murders?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why doesn't the message board censor go directly to police with the information when it first starts appearing?

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

What is a motif in literature? After defining the term, select a motif from Jack and Jill and discuss it in detail.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the difference between static and dynamic characters. Identify the static and dynamic characters of this novel and explain how each of them fit the category to which you have assigned them.

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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