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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What device does the senior FBI agent think the robbers used to keep tab on the police?
(a) A lookout.
(b) A police scanner.
(c) A bug they planted at headquarters.
(d) A surveillance camera.

2. Which composer's music is Cross playing early in the morning?
(a) Scriabin.
(b) Rachmaninoff.
(c) Debussy.
(d) Ravel.

3. Where do the FBI agents meet to discuss the robberies in Chapter 23?
(a) Quantico.
(b) The White House.
(c) The Pentagon.
(d) Arlington.

4. Where does Cross live?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Arlington, Virginia.
(c) Baltimore, Maryland.
(d) New York, New York.

5. What music group is Jannie listening to on headphones?
(a) Fugees.
(b) Beastie Boys.
(c) Soundgarden.
(d) Led Zeppelin.

Short Answer Questions

1. The First Avenue apartments remind Alex's partner of which movie?

2. Who has shot himself in the house that Cross and Cavalierre arrive at to interview the suspect who lives there?

3. Why does Cross take his kids into the basement?

4. What instrument does Cross play?

5. How was Christine after her ordeal a year ago?

Short Essay Questions

1. With which drug does the Mastermind kill the second team of bank robbers? How does the drug work?

2. Is the bank robbery crew for the Falls Church job as good as the Parkers? Are they as expensive?

3. What does Cross hope doesn't happen to Jannie in the ambulance? What happens as the doctors finish examining her at the hospital?

4. The Mastermind writes letters to higher-ups in bank corporations. What are they about? Does he send them? Where does he put them?

5. Describe how Cross feels about Christine. Why does Christine act distantly toward Cross?

6. If the bank manager had opened the vault immediately when asked to do so, would her family have been spared? Did Brianne know what would happen to the hostages all along?

7. Why does the Mastermind kill the Parkers after all they had done for him?

8. As Cross and Sampson are running after Montgomery, Cross keeps saying that he is a fast runner in his mind. Is he serious? Why does he say that?

9. What are Damon and Jannie doing when Jannie falls down? Did he mean to hurt Jannie?

10. Does Sampson have any hesitation in asking Cross about his troubled relationship with Christine? Who else does he ask about?

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