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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 find when he returns to his apartment?

2. Who else shows up to meet Kate's plane?

3. What item does the maid tell John was once in all the rooms at Bayview, but which John did not see on his visit to the hotel?

4. What is significant about the location of the meeting regarding the videotape?

5. Whom does Kate finally meet at a going away party for her and John in Chapter 31?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does John find at home after searching all day for Kate?

3. 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?

4. What question plagues John as he waits for Dom Fanelli to locate Jill Winslow?

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

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

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

8. Where does John go after speaking to Nash?

9. What does Jill promise to do for John when Kate arrives?

10. What does Nash ask of John when he hears the title of the movie John plans to allow him to view at their meeting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss John's decision to continue pursuing the investigation even after being warned away. Why did John begin investigating the crash? Why does he continue to investigate? What is John's overall goal in investigating this crash? Does John go into the investigation with the belief that terrorists are involved, or does John have some other motive for beginning this investigation? How many times is John warned to stay away from the investigation? Who gives these warnings? What are their motives?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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