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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 items does Marie ask John to buy in Chapter 18 before agreeing to meet him?

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

3. Who is Sydney R. Siben?

4. What nags at John about the timeline regarding the suspected lovers on the beach in Chapter 25?

5. What does Kate tell John upon his arrival at home that implies their supervisors are 'on to them'?

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

3. What key evidence did the FBI hide from Marie Gubitosi while she was investigating the couple from the beach?

4. For what purpose does John ask to see the personnel files of those employees who came into contact with the couple with the video camera? What does he find?

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

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

7. Who is Liam Griffith and what does he warn John Corey not to do at the memorial for TWA Flight 800?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Jill Winslow? Why was Jill on the beach the night Flight 800 went down? What did Jill see? Why does Jill quickly leave the scene? Who is Jill with? How does this companion influence Jill's decision to copy the tape? Why does Jill keep the tape to herself for five years? Why does Jill eventually give the tape to John? How does the discovery of this tape change the direction of John's investigation? What does the tape prove?

Essay Topic 2

The author introduces several other incidences of terror attacks that took place after the crash of TWA Flight 800. Discuss these other terror acts. How do these acts give authenticity to the plot? Who was responsible for most of these acts of terror? What was their purpose? How might these attacks have been connected to the September 11 attacks? Could these attacks have been a warning as the author appears to suggest in this novel? Was TWA Flight 800 connected to any of these acts? If so, how?

Essay Topic 3

Write a descriptive passage that discusses the motivation of one of the following characters and how that motivation impacts the development of the plot:

1) John Corey

2) Kate Mayfield

3) Jack Koenig

4) Ted Nash

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