2. Chunjin drives him to the Jordan house and gives Shaw what?
(a) A large, sharp knife.
(b) A bottle of wine.
(c) A gun with a silencer.
(d) A rifle.

3. What does Raymond's mother give him?
(a) A hug.
(b) A letter.
(c) A note.
(d) Another assignment.

4. Immediately upon Raymond's arrival in his mother's office, what does she do?
(a) Tells him to play solitaire.
(b) Offers him a drink.
(c) Hugs him.
(d) Tells him he is an assassin.

5. How does Raymond's mother get him to agree to meet her for lunch the next day?
(a) She offers her son a "leaked" story for the press.
(b) She tells him she wants to congratulate him on his marriage.
(c) She misses him.
(d) She blackmails him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the colonel reveal that his investigators have learned about Raymond?

2. The candidates take the stage, and what does Raymond's mother surreptitiously give Johnny Iselin?

3. Where is the reader then taken?

4. How must Marco appear?

5. Why does Raymond's mother storm out of her brother's home in Italy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Shaw's assassin mind-set triggered?

2. To where is the reader taken?

3. How does Raymond react when his mother schemes to announce Jocie's return to the United States through the Society pages of Raymond's own paper, without informing her son of the development? How does she respond to him?

4. How does Senator Jordan upset Shaw's mother?

5. What happens when it is discovered that Jocie and Raymond have left the party?

6. What is Raymond's costume? What does he think about it?

7. What do Raymond and Jocie do?

8. What is the assassination plot arranged for Raymond?

9. What does Eleanor think about Raymond being an assassin?

10. What takes place at their rendezvous?

(see the answer keys)

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