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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 does Iselin become?

2. Why has a local reporter come by to interview Shaw?

3. In a flashback to the Korean War, what are Ed Mavole and Bobby Lembeck doing?

4. About what does Marco tell Rosie?

5. Who is Amjac?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Raymond's mother do when she finds out about her son's relationship with Jocie?

2. What does Raymond do when O'Neil insists on throwing a welcome dinner for the Medal of Honor veteran?

3. What happens when the President gives Shaw his medal?

4. How does the chapter begin?

5. What does Senator John Iselin proclaim?

6. Why is Raymond taken to this sanitarium?

7. What will Raymond Shaw be receiving?

8. What happens to the American soldiers during this mission?

9. Why do others not like Iselin?

10. How does Iselin's story change?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Communism is the cause of much of the action in this story.

Part 1) What is Communism? How did many Americans feel about Communists, based on the information in the story?

Part 2) How does Communism affect the lives of the main characters?

Part 3) How does the author feel about Communism, based on this story?

Essay Topic 2

Raymond is odd.

Part 1) How do you know this? How is he odd? What role does his personality play in his abilities as an assassin?

Part 2) How has his upbringing affected his personality?

Part 3) How does his personality change throughout the story? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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