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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 is Lee's brother stationed while Lee is in the Bronx?

2. What skill does Bannister assure Mackey that Dave Ferrie can provide?

3. According to Bannister on June 19th, who does Kennedy travel with at all times?

4. How is Lee's behavior in the brig?

5. What does Win talk to his wife about at the end of the chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lee Oswald do on his base in Atsugi?

2. How does Lee fair in the brig?

3. Describe Nicholas Branch's life.

4. Who does Marguerite blame for her life in the Bronx?

5. Why, according to Parmenter, did the Bay of Pigs invasion fail?

6. What does Lee read about in New Orleans?

7. Why is Lee banned from the Sproul house?

8. Why is Lee Oswald punished before shipping out?

9. Who is Walter Everett, Jr.?

10. Why is Parmenter especially angry about the Bay of Pigs debacle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As the catalyst for the Kennedy assassination, Win Everett is a strangely benign and ambiguous figure. In an essay, discuss the grievances he expresses regarding the Kennedy administration. What does he want his fake assassination to achieve? Based on these goals, does Everett seem left or right in his political leanings? Is he an inherently violent man?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about Lee Oswald's private relationship with the concept of history. At what point in Oswald's personal development does he begin to consider himself a major player of history? How does he try to impress himself upon the scope of history? Discuss the process by which Oswald realizes he will not affect history in a positive way, and how this skews his view of the world.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about the character of Dave Ferrie. What are the defining physical and psychological characteristics of this individual? What role does he play in the novel and in the plot to kill Kennedy? How does his relationship with Lee Oswald shift and develop over the course of the narrative? Discuss Ferrie's portrayal as a personification of perverted patriotism.

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