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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 evidence would a kinetic missile leave on a downed aircraft?

2. What does John tell Rosenthal in Chapter 25 was the cause of the crash of Flight 800?

3. For whom does John Corey work?

4. What has Fanelli guessed about John and warns him to stay away from in Chapter 29?

5. Who is Liam Griffith, introduced in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What do John and Kate agree to do if anyone asks about their re-investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800?

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 Ted Nash. Who is Ted Nash? Why does John believe he is dead at the beginning of the novel? How does John learn Nash is still alive? Why does Nash reveal this truth to John? What is Nash afraid John will learn? Did Nash have an affair with John's wife? Why do several characters claim that Kate and Nash were lovers? What does Nash tell John about the couple who videotaped the crash? What does Nash say about the videotape? Is this true? Why does Nash offer this explanation to John?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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