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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about the relationship between the two lovers on the beach?
(a) They are both legally separated.
(b) They are both teachers.
(c) They are both married to other people.
(d) They are both politicians.

2. What was Tom Spruck doing the night TWA Flight 800 crashed?
(a) Swimming on a deserted beach.
(b) Watching planes take off.
(c) Flying to Paris.
(d) Sailing on his boat.

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 knew for years and did not tell him.
(b) Because she was having drinks with Ted Nash.
(c) Because her information was obtain illegally.
(d) Because she lied about it previously.

4. What does John learn about Marie Gubitosi before he goes to see her?
(a) She is now retired and a mother.
(b) She is still with the task force.
(c) She has been injured and has short term memory loss.
(d) She is a big fan of the FBI.

5. Why does Tom Spruck not believe an American missile could have caused the crash of TWA Flight 800?
(a) If people knew about it, they would have talked.
(b) American missiles do not have the power this missile clearly had.
(c) No American would target an American passenger plane.
(d) The government does not have the power to hide such a large mistake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the accepted cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800 as discussed by Kate and John in Chapter 3?

2. What have Jill and Bud come to the beach to do?

3. What does Kate tell John would have been the consequence of her choosing an assignment within the continental United States?

4. To what does John compare this key evidence Kate is placing all the hopes of the investigation on in Chapter 17?

5. What room in the Bayview Hotel does John request he be allowed to view in Chapter 25?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Kate come to know which hotel the blanket found on the beach near the camera lens cap belonged to?

2. What does Jill see in the sky just before the plane explodes?

3. What does Koenig imply about Kate's relationship with Ted Nash during his meeting with John to go over his assignment in Yemen?

4. Why does Kate suspect Koenig wants to see her the following morning and Steiner wants to see John?

5. What do John and Kate agree to do if anyone asks about their re-investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800?

6. What are the seven theories of the plane crash that Kate tells John?

7. Why does John insist that a videotape of the crash of TWA Flight 800 might not be the key piece of evidence Kate hopes it will be?

8. What kind of camera did Nash tell Kate the lens cap came from?

9. How does Tom Spruck explain his theory when previous investigators have already ruled them out?

10. What does Tom Spruck, a retired naval officer, tell John he saw the night Flight 800 crashed?

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