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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 does John learn about Marie Gubitosi before he goes to see her?

2. What information does John learn in Chapter 24 the FBI purged from the hotel computers?

3. The deaths of how many people are being memorialized in Chapter 3?

4. What do John and Rosenthal realize has happened to the personnel records of the employees who came into direct contact with the lovers on the beach the night of the crash of Flight 800?

5. What is significant about the relationship between the two lovers on the beach?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. What does Koenig imply about Kate's relationship with Ted Nash during his meeting with John to go over his assignment in Yemen?

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

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

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. 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?

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 Kate Mayfield. How does Kate know John? How does their relationship affect Kate's influence over John's decision to investigate Flight 800? Why does Kate want the crash re-investigated? What is her motivation? Why was Kate not allowed to investigate the blanket found on the beach after the crash? Why was she reprimanded for discovering which hotel the blanket came from? Why do all of John's enemies continuously imply that Kate had an affair with Nash? Did she?

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

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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