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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 do John and Kate promise to do if they are approached about the re-investigation into the crash of Flight 800?

2. What vice of John's becomes evident when he has lunch with Kate in Chapter 17?

3. What does John request when he first arrives at the Bayview Hotel in Chapter 23?

4. What warning does a friend of John's from the NYPD tell him about his re-investigation into the crash of Flight 800?

5. What did Spruck see the night TWA Flight 800 crashed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Kate being sent to Africa and why has she chosen Africa over an assignment in the United States?

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

4. 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?

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 does Jill see in the sky just before the plane explodes?

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

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

9. Why does Kate tell John she would like him to re-investigate the crash of TWA Flight 800?

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 Jack Koenig. Why does Koenig dislike John? Why do John and Koenig get into disagreements several times in the novel? Why does Koenig send John to Yemen? What might John have been able to prevent if he had finished his investigation into Flight 800 instead of going to Yemen? What was Jack Koenig afraid John might discover? Why does John invite Koenig to the final meeting regarding the VCR tape? What does John think Koenig will do with the tape?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss John's decision to continue pursuing the investigation even after being warned away. Why did John begin investigating the crash? Why does he continue to investigate? What is John's overall goal in investigating this crash? Does John go into the investigation with the belief that terrorists are involved, or does John have some other motive for beginning this investigation? How many times is John warned to stay away from the investigation? Who gives these warnings? What are their motives?

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