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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 train is supposed to be coming into the station?

2. Where is Heidi heading after Dirk sees her off at the airport?

3. Which branch of the military does Heidi work for?

4. What train company does the ticket agent in Chapter 3 work for?

5. What does Danielle Sarveux think when she is told that her husband may walk with a cane?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shields want the man with the dead daughter to do for him?

2. Why were the tests of the Doodlebug conducted in the Labrador Sea?

3. What does the Doodlebug find?

4. What have been some challenges that Sarveux has faced during the time he has been Prime Minister?

5. Describe the Doodlebug.

6. Why does Mercier meet with the Secretary of Energy, Ronald Klein?

7. Why is Mercier worried as he works late at the beginning of Chapter 21?

8. Who comes into the Wacketshire station while Harding and Meechum wait for the Manhattan Limited?

9. Why does Harvey Shields think he is experiencing a nightmare?

10. Describe the Pullman car that Essex is traveling in.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several characters in the novel perform their duties at great personal risk or hardship. Discuss who these characters are and how they perform their duties in spite of the difficulties or challenges that work to keep them from doing their duty.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss what a night probe is and explain why the term is a good title for the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how the letter that Heidi found was the inciting force in the novel. Show how it affected other events in the book and how it created some events that happened in the book.

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