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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 is the corporate group on board the tour bus?

2. When Detective Weiss from Internal Affairs interviews Macdougall, how does he respond?

3. What college did both Cross and Cavalierre attend?

4. Where does Cross see his psychiatrist?

5. How did the employees at First Union tease the prime suspect from Hazelwood when he worked with them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Cavalierre in Washington, D.C., when the FBI finds Agent Walsh dead? Does Cavalierre believe that Agent Walsh killed himself? Why or why not?

2. How does Alex act when he sees his psychiatrist, Adele Finally, at church? Is she effective at counseling him?

3. Has Cavalierre been married before and does she have any kids?

4. What does Cross call Christine's apartment and garden in Mitchellville? What does Christine's garden remind Cross of?

5. What is Szabo's main problem with Cross' breaking into his apartment? What happens in the apartment?

6. Is Veronica Macdougall a believable witness to her father's guilt? Why would she willingly give him up?

7. Who is Patrick Lee? Why is Szabo so mad at him?

8. What kind of surveillance does Brian Macdougall warn will cause a hostage to be shot? What does the FBI do at the Capitol Hilton?

9. Does the Mastermind have the agents throw the money and diamonds from the train right away? How does he have them throw the money and diamonds off the train eventually?

10. How does the Mastermind decide to "top" himself in Hartford? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Frederic Szabo's state of mind. What does he have in common with the Mastermind? What evidence supports the possibility that he is the Mastermind? What evidence points to the fact that he is not the Mastermind?

Essay Topic 2

There is an old saying, "If you want something done right, do it yourself." Why doesn't the Mastermind commit the robberies himself? How does he ensure that the people he works with will do what he says? How does he feel about his vantage point as the observer?

Essay Topic 3

Veronica Macdougall reads a statement to the police that gets her father arrested. What motivates her to turn her father in? How does the evidence she presents implicate her father?

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