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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Irene Kennedy tell the President in Chapter Ten that Saddam Hussein has hidden under a Baghdad hospital?
(a) A secret underground military base.
(b) A fortune in stolen gold.
(c) The three nuclear weapons Park Chow Lee developed.
(d) The bodies of people he murdered.

2. What do the President's advisers propose to do to get a Delta team inside the Baghdad hospital that is their mission's target?
(a) Disguise them as patients.
(b) Disguise them as medical personnel.
(c) Drop them out of a helicopter.
(d) Put them in a white Mercedes.

3. Whose funeral does Irene Kennedy attend in the opening scene of Separation of Power?
(a) Her husband, Jeff's.
(b) Her father's.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) Thomas Stanfield's, the Director of the CIA.

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

5. Where does Congressman Albert Rudin meet Hank Clark in Chapter Eight?
(a) A steam room.
(b) A tea room.
(c) A Mexican restaurant.
(d) A bar.

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

7. Why does Donatella want to go to Mitch's hotel at the beginning of Chapter Twenty-One?
(a) To make him buy her dinner.
(b) To meet his current girlfriend.
(c) To try to rekindle her old romance with him.
(d) To talk over old times.

8. Who does Mark Ellis visit in Chapter One?
(a) Congressman Albert Rudin.
(b) Senator Hank Clark.
(c) Donatella.
(d) President Hayes.

9. 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 he's seen a car following them three times that day.
(b) That three men are trying to kill her.
(c) That there are three men she needs to beware.
(d) That 11:30 is when the CIA will bomb the Baghdad hospital.

10. In what language does Yanta, the man in the car that has been following Donatella and Mitch, swear at Mitch in Chapter Twenty-Two?
(a) Hebrew.
(b) Korean.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Russian.

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

12. Who kills Yanta in Chapter Twenty-Four ?
(a) Donatella.
(b) Ben Freidman.
(c) Mitch.
(d) Marc Rosenthal.

13. Which of General Flood's suggestions would have only a ninety percent chance of success?
(a) Using the Tomahawk cruise missiles.
(b) M16 rifles and tanks.
(c) Germ warefare.
(d) Using the F117A stealth fighters.

14. In Chapter Six, why doesn't Mitch think he can marry Anna, have children, and live a peaceful life?
(a) Someone's trying to kill him.
(b) He has a terminal disease.
(c) He doesn't want to give up being an assassin.
(d) He doesn't love Anna.

15. What is the potential downside of all of General Flood's suggestions for dealing with the problem at the Baghdad hospital?
(a) Spies could leak news of the plans to Saddam Hussein.
(b) Environmental damage.
(c) War could be declared by other Arab countries.
(d) Collateral damage, i.e., the killing of innocent civilians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the videotape that Irene Kennedy plays for Mitch in Chapter Four?

2. When Donatella has to end her meeting with Mitch to get to another appointment, where does she ask him to meet her later that evening?

3. When someone tries to kill Mitch in Germany, who do the clues lead to?

4. How much money does Hank Clark offer Ben Freidman?

5. How does Donatella respond to Mitch's warning?

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