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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. How long will Pitt and his crew stay around looking for mineral contacts?

2. How many people die on the train?

3. What does Villon ask the officer in charge of the Mounted Police records department to find?

4. What is the Western Union man doing while waiting for the train?

5. What does the person who stops Sandecker when he is out jogging want information about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is some of the equipment in the NUMA headquarters?

3. What does Admiral Sandecker look like?

4. Why did Quayle believe that the sub was going to attack the Doodlebug?

5. What does John Essex do after Heidi Milligan leaves?

6. Why does Giordino interrupt Sandecker's meeting with the Security Council?

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

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

9. What is Hiram Meechum, the Western Union man, doing while he waits for the train?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Prime Minister Charles Sarveux compares himself to Lincoln. Argue whether Sarveux's struggles to keep Canada are or are not similar to the struggles that Lincoln faced when trying to keep the United States together. Use examples from the book to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

Argue whether the author does or does not use details that stereotype his characters. Use examples from the novel.

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