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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 warning about his employees does John give Rosenthal in Chapter 25?

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

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

4. What does Jill tell Bill she saw before the plane exploded?

5. What promise was Kate able to extract from Koenig with the understanding that both she and John would accept their new assignments?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Who does John ask to find Marie Gubitosi and what does he find?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the real story behind TWA Flight 800. When did the plane go down? What was the explanation the NTSB gave the American public? What were some of the theories about how the plane might have crashed? How do these theories compare to the ones suggested in the novel? How does the comparison between reality and the story of Flight 800 in the novel create a plausible plot? Is it possible Flight 800 was a precursor to the September 11 attacks?

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

In the end, everyone involved in the investigation dies except for John and Kate. How does this cause a credibility problem for John and Kate? Does John have a copy of the videotape? What happened to all the copies of the tape? What would John do with the tape if one still existed? Who might believe John without a tape and without a witness? What does this imply about the real story of the crash of TWA Flight 800? Is it possible John's story could be accurate? Why or why not?

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