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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. Shaw does not recognize this person, but after introductions recalls what about this person?

2. What compels Marco to give up women?

3. What is Marco trying to remember?

4. The next day, what does the FBI do to Marco?

5. What type of conditioning does Dr. Yen Lo and his crew of neuropsychiatrists use to create the perfect assassin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marco meet Rosie?

2. What happens to Marco one night?

3. What does Raymond say when Marco tells him about his dreams?

4. What does Senator John Iselin proclaim?

5. What is known about Shaw from the beginning of this flashback?

6. What does Raymond tell his mother about Marco? How does she react?

7. How does the chapter begin?

8. Why do others not like Iselin?

9. What does Jorgenson do after this meeting with Marco?

10. What happens between Marco and Shaw, regarding Marco's fight with Chunjin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There is a great deal of tension in this story.

Part 1) Describe the cause of this tension.

Part 2) How does this tension affect the characters in the story, as well as the reader?

Part 3) How might this story and tension reflect the lives of Americans at this time?

Essay Topic 2

Shaw's mother is a dominating character.

Part 1) How is she a dominating character? Why is she so controlling? How does she affect the lives of those around her?

Part 2) When does she lose some of this control? Why? What does this reveal about her?

Part 3) How does her personality play into the hands of the Communists?

Essay Topic 3

Raymond has a strange relationship with his mother.

Part 1) Describe their relationship. How do the flashbacks assist you in understanding their relationship?

Part 2) Has their relationship always been strange? Why or why not?

Part 3) Based on their relationship, how might Raymond have felt about killing his mother, if he had come out of the trance instead of dying?

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