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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. Who recruited Donatella to become an assassin for Mossad after she overcame her drug addiction?
(a) Ben Freidman.
(b) Yanta.
(c) Peter Cameron.
(d) Marc Rosenthal.

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?
(a) Her apartment.
(b) The American Embassy.
(c) His hotel.
(d) The Jamaica Cafe.

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

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

5. What do the President's military advisers think Ben Freidman wants to see the President about in Chapter Seven?
(a) The nomination of Irene Kennedy as the new CIA director.
(b) They don't know.
(c) Mitch's retirement.
(d) A terrorist bombing in northern Ireland.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what country is Park Chow Lee?

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

3. What does Ben Freidman say Israel wants the U.S. to do about the problem he's come to reveal?

4. Why does Freidman tell the assassin assigned to kill Donatella to take a team with him rather than making it a solo job?

5. At the beginning of Chapter Sixteen, where is Donatella?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mitch manage to get away from Anna long enough to meet with Donatella?

2. Why is it ironic that Donatella needs morphine after she is wounded by Rosenthal?

3. What is Ben Freidman's history with Donatella Rahn?

4. What does Irene Kennedy's knowledge about the woman in the tape she plays for Mitch in Chapter Four indicate about her?

5. Why does Congressman Albert Rudin want to see the CIA shut down and dismantled?

6. How does the fact that Saddam Hussein has hidden his nuclear weapons under a hospital complicate any mission to seize or destroy those weapons?

7. Explain the concept of congressional oversight in terms of the intelligence community and why Rudin thinks Irene Kennedy does not support the concept.

8. Why does Mitch think the men who attack Donatella in her apartment are from Mossad?

9. In Chapter Eleven, how do the President's top military advisers suggest dealing with the situation in Baghdad?

10. What does the way Donatella greets Mitch in Chapter Sixteen indicate about her feelings for Mitch?

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