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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 room does John request when he arrives at the hotel?

2. Where does Dom Fanelli promise John he will be the following morning?

3. What does John see when the video reaches the part in which TWA Flight 800 crashes?

4. What deal does Ted Nash want to make with John in regards to the videotape he now knows John has?

5. What movie does John ask JIll to get a copy of while she is out shopping in Chapter 49?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Nash claim was on the videotape the couple on the beach took the night of the plane crash?

3. Where does John go after speaking to Nash?

4. What reason does John give the police for wanting to speak to Jill Winslow?

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

6. Where does John arrange to meet with Nash the following morning? What is significant about this location?

7. What important detail is Roxanne able to supply John about an item that is no longer available in the Bayview Hotel rooms now, but was in 1996?

8. What is Jill's biggest fear now that John knows the truth about the videotape?

9. Where does John take Jill after ditching his car in a university parking lot?

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

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

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?

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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