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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. Where does Cross move his family to after receiving several hangup phone calls?
2. What is the Vice President's name?
3. Who does the Truth School killer ask for by name?
4. Who is the CIA assassin that Cross suspects as part of the Jack and Jill killings?
5. Who calls the White House to speak to the President, able to dodge all security checks?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is unusual about Jill's phone call to the President?
2. Discuss why Hawkins is so confident at Madison Square Garden.
3. Why does the Secret Service continue moving the President through the tunnel against the investigator's advice?
4. What do investigators discover when they go to the message board subscriber's home? What does their finding imply?
5. What is unusual about the Truth School killer's attempt to enter the investigator's home? What does this show about the killer?
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. 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?
8. How does the investigator arrange a situation in which he could take down the Truth School killer? Explain this reasoning.
9. Why is the general who is killed a threat to Jack?
10. Why does the Truth School killer have a seizure, and why is this information important to the novel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
What is a motif in literature? After defining the term, select a motif from Jack and Jill and discuss it in detail.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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