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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most significant item found on this beach?
(a) Debris from a missile.
(b) A videotape.
(c) A camera lens cap.
(d) A child's toy.

2. Who is Sydney R. Siben?
(a) A special agent with the FBI.
(b) An investigator with ATTF.
(c) An agent with the CIA.
(d) An investigator with the NTSB.

3. Why does John become angry with Kate in Chapter 21 when he learns how she found out about the blanket and lens cap left on the beach the night after the crash of Flight 800?
(a) Because she was having drinks with Ted Nash.
(b) Because her information was obtain illegally.
(c) Because she knew for years and did not tell him.
(d) Because she lied about it previously.

4. What is the CIA's explanation for the hundreds of witness reports that claim to have seen the same thing?
(a) An optical illusion.
(b) A short circuit.
(c) A freak storm.
(d) Pilot error.

5. For what reason is John being sent to Yemen?
(a) To give him an investigation to work that has not been concluded.
(b) To give him distance from Kate.
(c) To offer him a possible advance in his career.
(d) To keep him from the investigation into Flight 800.

6. Who made the video John watches that refutes mechanical failure as the cause of the crash of Flight 800?
(a) The NTSB.
(b) The FBI.
(c) Conspiracy theorists.
(d) The CIA.

7. What business is John's office mate investigating that he believes to be a front for terrorism?
(a) An Islamic charity.
(b) A Jewish deli.
(c) An Arab charity.
(d) A Greek deli.

8. Why does Kate insist she cannot get involved in re-investigating the crash of TWA Flight 800?
(a) Due to her position with the FBI.
(b) Due to a loyalty to her boss, Jack Koenig.
(c) Due to a personal belief that justice was done.
(d) Due to commitment to other cases.

9. Which of the following is not one of the seven theories as to the crash of TWA Flight 800?
(a) A friendly fired missile from military exercises.
(b) Aliens.
(c) A methane gas bubble.
(d) A missile from a foreign submarine.

10. What warning does Koenig give John just before he leaves his office in Chapter 30?
(a) Not to disappear like others who have gone to Yemen.
(b) Not to mess up the USS Cole investigation.
(c) Not to forget who is in charge.
(d) Not to touch the Flight 800 investigation again.

11. What motivation causes John to decide to investigate the crash of Flight 800 despite the inherent dangers?
(a) The 203 people who died.
(b) A friend who died on the plane.
(c) Kate's career.
(d) Kate.

12. From whom does Kate tell John she learned of the hotel blanket and camera lens cap found on the beach the night of the crash of Flight 800?
(a) Marie Gubitosi.
(b) Dick Kearns.
(c) Ted Nash.
(d) Jack Koenig.

13. What is the nationality of the taxi driver who takes John and Kate to the office in Chapter 14?
(a) Italian.
(b) Mexican.
(c) English.
(d) Arab.

14. What does John tell Rosenthal in Chapter 25 was the cause of the crash of Flight 800?
(a) A missile attack.
(b) An accidental explosion of the fuel tank.
(c) A methane bubble.
(d) An accidental radar attack.

15. To where does Kate take John after leaving the memorial service?
(a) To a beach where debris from a plane crash washed up.
(b) The beach where two lovers were suspected to have videotaped a plane crash.
(c) To a beach where they skinny dip together.
(d) To a beach where John first proposed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John do in Chapter 22 that is against ATTF regulations?

2. In what part of the investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800 did Marie participate?

3. Who is Liam Griffith, introduced in Chapter 3?

4. Why does Tom Spruck claim he never came forward with his information regarding the crash of TWA Flight 800?

5. What type of missile does Tom Spruck suggest might have caused the crash of TWA Flight 800?

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