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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. How does Kate tell John she learned the name of the hotel on the blanket?

2. Why does Siben insist a missile could not have taken down TWA Flight 800?

3. What does Kate tell John was found on this beach?

4. Why does Tom Spruck not believe an American missile could have caused the crash of TWA Flight 800?

5. For what reason is John being sent to Yemen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What interview did Marie Gubitosi conduct that John now feels is significant in regards to the couple on the beach the night of the plane crash?

2. What name does John ask Dick Kearns to give him in relation to the investigation?

3. What did the police find on a public beach within view of the plane crash that Kate now feels is significant to the investigation?

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

5. Why does Dick Kearns tell John Corey to stay away from the TWA Flight 800 investigation?

6. Where does Kate take John in order for him to view the wreckage of the plane?

7. What does Kate tell John about how she came to know about the police finding the blanket from Bayview Hotel on the beach the night of the crash?

8. Why do John Corey and Kate Mayfield go to a memorial on the beach each year?

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

10. What is the result of John's meeting with Stein?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss in detail the importance of each of these items on the overall development of the plot:

1) Camera lens cap

2) Hotel blanket

3) Band aid

4) A Man and A Woman VCR movie.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the setting of the novel. How does the time in which the novel is set predict the end of the novel? What impact could John's investigation have had on the attacks of September 11 had he not been sent to Yemen? Why does the author arrange the final meeting between John and Nash in the North Tower of the World Trade Center? How do the deaths of Nash and Koenig in the World Trade Center stop John from going public with all he knows about the crash of TWA Flight 800?

Essay Topic 3

What does the CIA say about the many witnesses who thought they saw an orange light moving toward the plane the night Flight 800 crashed? How do they support this claim? Who disputes this claim? What does Kate think of this claim? What is the readers first clue that this claim by the CIA might not be true? What does the videotape show? Is the orange light moving toward the plane or is it the burning fuselage falling to the ocean? How does the reader know for sure which it is?

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