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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of work did Brown do before he became involved with the CIA?
(a) He was a federal judge.
(b) He was a college professor.
(c) He was an athlete.
(d) He was a cop.

2. When Steveken visits Rudin's office, why does Rudin lead him out of the office to meet at a nearby coffee shop instead?
(a) Rudin wants to spy on someone in the coffee shop.
(b) Rudin is uncomfortable talking in his own office.
(c) Rudin craves caffeine.
(d) Rudin fears his office is bugged.

3. What does Ben Freidman say Israel wants the U.S. to do about the problem he's come to reveal?
(a) Destroy Saddam's nuclear weapons.
(b) Support Freidman's attack on Saddam Hussein's palace.
(c) Go to war with Palestine.
(d) Give Israel money.

4. What does Irene Kennedy think is the reason for Freidman's visit to the President?
(a) A Palestinian terrorist living in Chicago.
(b) Something to do with Baghdad.
(c) A planned assassination of the President by Iraq.
(d) A planned terrorist attack in the U.S.

5. What does Mitch warn Donatella NOT to do after giving her the coded statement?
(a) Drive to her office.
(b) Return to her apartment.
(c) Leave Milan.
(d) Get in her car.

6. What kind of cars do the President's advisers say leave Saddam Hussein's palaces each day, carrying Saddam and his sons around Baghdad?
(a) Silver Porches.
(b) Black Lincolns.
(c) Black Cadillacs.
(d) White Mercedes.

7. In Chapter One, who warns Ellis NOT to mess with Irene Kennedy or the CIA if he doesn't want to end up dead?
(a) Mitch.
(b) Anna.
(c) Congressman Albert Rudin.
(d) Senator Hank Clark.

8. How does Donatella respond to Mitch's warning?
(a) She scoffs at it but heeds it.
(b) She ignores it.
(c) She kisses him because she thinks it means he loves her.
(d) She heeds it.

9. How old is Donatella?
(a) Forty.
(b) Thirty-three.
(c) Twenty-nine.
(d) Thirty-eight.

10. What does Clark want Brown to do?
(a) Kill Irene Kennedy.
(b) Meet a man looking for proof that Irene Kennedy is corrupt.
(c) Kidnap Donatella.
(d) Kill Mitch.

11. In Chapter Twenty-One, what does Mitch's coded statement to Donatella that he has met her at 11:30 three times this week mean?
(a) That 11:30 is when the CIA will bomb the Baghdad hospital.
(b) That there are three men she needs to beware.
(c) That he's seen a car following them three times that day.
(d) That three men are trying to kill her.

12. Where does Chapter One take place?
(a) Washington, DC.
(b) Williams Island in the Bahamas.
(c) New York.
(d) Milan, Italy.

13. Which of the following statements is NOT a reason Ben Freidman uses in selecting the assassin to kill Donatella?
(a) The assassin is loyal to him.
(b) The assassin has never worked with Donatella.
(c) The assassin is an ex-lover of Donatella's.
(d) The assassin is good at what he does.

14. What happens to Donatella in Chapter Twenty-Two as she enters the living room of her apartment?
(a) She is shot and wounded.
(b) She is beaten in the head and knocked unconscious.
(c) She falls and sprains an ankle.
(d) She has a seizure.

15. What kind of help does Clark offer to provide Rudin?
(a) Financial help.
(b) Help evading the media.
(c) A referral to someone skilled at uncovering secrets.
(d) Congressional help.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Donatella's response when Mitch asks who hired her to kill Peter Cameron?

2. In what language does Yanta, the man in the car that has been following Donatella and Mitch, swear at Mitch in Chapter Twenty-Two?

3. How do the President's military advisers suggest increasing the odds of their plan for the Baghdad hospital actually working?

4. When Mitch tracks down the person who tried to have him killed in Germany, what does he find?

5. What kind of job does Irene Kennedy offer Mitch in Chapter Four?

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