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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 Jill force John to watch when she shows him the videotape of the plane crash?

2. What is significant about the date on which John returns from Yemen?

3. What is foreshadowing?

4. Which of the following people is not invited to the meeting the following morning, as John explains to Jill in Chapter 50?

5. How long did John look for Kate before returning to his apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What method does Jill insist was used to destroy the original videotape of the plane crash?

2. What does Nash first tell John about the crash of Flight 800 when they meet on the beach?

3. What threat does Koenig make to John when they speak the day before the scheduled meeting?

4. Who arranges for John, Jill, and Kate to have a police escort the following day?

5. What does John hear as he approaches the North Tower a few minutes behind Jill and Kate?

6. Who all does John tell Jill will be at the meeting the following day?

7. How does John know that Jill made a copy of the videotape?

8. What is significant about the pink receipt John is able to locate with the help of the hotel manager for a VCR tape the couple in room 203 took out the night of the plane crash?

9. John returns to the Bayview Hotel and learns what about the process to check out books from the hotel library?

10. How does John ensure that Jill Winslow's husband will not be home when he goes to talk to her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Bayview Hotel. What is the Bayview Hotel? What role does this hotel play in the investigation both when the crash happened and five years later when John begins re-investigating? Why did the FBI focus on this hotel? Why are all the employees who came into direct contact with the videotaping couple disappear? Why can John not find the records that deal with these employees or with the FBI agents who stayed at the hotel during the initial investigation? What does this imply about the actions of the original investigators?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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