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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 can Shields see from where he is at the beginning of the book?

2. Who is Dirk's secretary?

3. What train is supposed to be coming into the station?

4. How late is the train that should be coming into the station?

5. Who developed the Doodlebug?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the injuries that the Prime Minister suffers after escaping the plane.

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

4. Why is it highly unlikely that someone could tap into Pitt's video transmissions?

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

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

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

8. What is the weather like as Sam Harding waits for the Manhattan Limited?

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

10. How do the Royal Canadian Mounted Police save Sarveux's life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Usually in a novel there are dynamic characters, characters who grow or change during the course of the story. There are also static characters, who are very much the same at the end of the novel as they were at the beginning. Argue whether any characters in the novel could be considered dynamic characters. Use examples from Night Probe! to support your arguments.

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