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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. Who is Khalil?

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

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

4. Where does John go after leaving the Bayview Hotel in Chapter 25?

5. How did Kate find out the blanket found on the beach might have come from a local hotel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

5. Who does John ask Fanelli to find and for what purpose?

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

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

8. What question comes to John's mind after he views both the hotel room and the spot on the beach where the couple possibly videotaped the plane crash?

9. Who is Sidney R. Siben and how does he discredit eye witness reports of an object flying toward the plane from the ocean?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss John Corey. Who is John? What does he do for a living? How does John happen to attend the fifth anniversary memorial for the crash victims of TWA Flight 800? Why is John warned away from investigating TWA Flight 800 before he even considers the idea? Why would FBI special agent Liam Griffith think that John might want to investigate the crash? Who is John's wife? What is her involvement in the investigation of the crash?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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