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

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

3. Who does Cross visit when he has trouble sleeping?

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

5. Why does the Truth School killer feel abandoned by Cross?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the theme of the Truth School killer, and how does it explain his motive?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is a foil? Who is the foil of Jack and Jill? Discuss the character who provides the role of foil in this novel and discuss how he/she fulfills the role.

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

Define rising action as an element of plot. Discuss in detail the rising action in Jack and Jill. How does the author present it? How does the rising action flow? How does the rising action add to the suspense of the story?

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