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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 does Rudin want to do when he learns of the bombing of Iraq?
(a) Go to the media to protest it and say it's a farce.
(b) Demand Irene Kennedy's resignation.
(c) Demand the President's resignation.
(d) Go to the media in support of it.

2. When Anna demands to know who Donatella is, what does Donatella answer?
(a) That she's Mitch's lover.
(b) That she's Mitch's boss.
(c) That she's Mitch's sister.
(d) That she's Mitch's wife.

3. What job promised to Brown is being given to another?
(a) Attorney General.
(b) Secretary of State.
(c) Supreme Court Justice.
(d) Director of the CIA.

4. On what television show does Rudin appear in Chapter Thirty-Seven?
(a) Meet the Press.
(b) Saturday Night Live.
(c) Larry King Live.
(d) The Tonight Show.

5. What factor helps keep the Orion Team's Baghdad mission a secret?
(a) The attack occurs at night.
(b) The media is focused on a big earthquake.
(c) The media is focused on Rudin's accusations about the CIA.
(d) Anna, an NBC reporter, keeps the other reporters at bay.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the Mercedes sedans Colonel Gray has obtained for the Baghdad mission?

2. How does Mitch's weight compare to Uday Hussein's?

3. What does Brown give Steveken at the end of Chapter Thirty-Two to give to Congressman Rudin?

4. What does President Hayes tell the media about Rudin during his press conference in Chapter Forty-Six?

5. Why isn't Congressman Tim Zebarth, the man interviewing Rudin on camera, shocked by the news of Irene Kennedy's Middle East Operations?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan does Ben Freidman devise for dealing with Donatella in case she tells anyone about him?

2. How does Irene Kennedy handle herself at the confirmation hearing after Rudin's accusations on Meet the Press?

3. What goes wrong with the timing of the missile attack designed to provide a diversion for the Delta Force's mission and how will could this problem potentially affect the mission?

4. Who does Mitch plan to disguise himself as for the mission to Baghdad and how will his disguise assist the mission?

5. Describe the Delta Force team's encounter with an Iraqi policeman en route to the hospital that is their destination.

6. What political scandal does Albert Rudin introduce on the Meet the Press television show?

7. In what way does Congressman Zebarth in Chapter Thirty-Seven help illustrate Washington's atmosphere of secrecy?

8. Explain how, in Chapter Forty-Nine, Anna gets Mitch to understand the feelings she experienced in Milan when she didn't know if she would ever see him again?

9. What is the code name or nickname Colonel Gray and Kennedy use for Mitch in Chapter Twenty-Six, and what does this name indicate about Mitch and his abilities?

10. How does Donatella arouse Anna's jealousy when they meet in Chapter Twenty-Seven?

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