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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 route does the President take to deliver his New York speech?

2. What does Cross listen to after the President gets the phone call that dodges White House security ?

3. Who answers the knock on the door at the principal's house?

4. Over which presidential retreat do Jack and Jill fly?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Explain the plan that Jack will use to kill the President.

10. Why do investigators first assume that Hawkins missed his true target in the Kennedy Center?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define and discuss climax in literature. When does it occur? Discuss the climax of Jack and Jill in detail.

Essay Topic 2

What is the difference between tone and mood in works of literature? Discuss both tone and mood in Jack and Jill.

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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