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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 does Barbara do in an effort to bring Joe to his senses?

2. How far is the crash site from the Loose Change Ranch?

3. What does she call him for the first time?

4. Who is Mahalia to Rose?

5. What does Barbara tell Joe that she hopes he finds?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Barbara so afraid that she will reveal nothing to Joe on the phone and then won't even talk to him at her door?

2. Why does Joe decide Barbara shouldn't tell him anymore, and why does she insist?

3. Why does Joe believe that in the year that has passed, Rose has never tried to return Nina to him if she really had his daughter?

4. How does Joe warn Barbara and keep her safe at the same time?

5. What has time with Nina given Joe?

6. What bombshell does Rose drop on Joe in the basement of Santa-Fe-by-the-Sea?

7. What does the Project 99's SSW-89-58 do first when he remotely enters the cabin that Joe, Louis and Nina are in?

8. What facts does Joe share with Barbara about the flight that he has so far withheld from her?

9. How does Barbara try to keep Joe from taking false hope from the existence of the three seats found unscathed?

10. What surprises Joe about the information Barbara reveals about how the plane went into the ground?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the NTSB? What is their mandate or purpose when an accident such as Flight 353 occurs? How is the NTSB structured? What kind of professionals do they employ? What kind of tools do they employ to determine the reasons behind a crash? What is the purpose of this kind of investigation? What do they hope to learn? In the hierarchy of professionals that attend to a crash site, who has the ultimate control over how the site is handled?

Essay Topic 2

Why is Barbara Christman so brutally honest with Joe as she describes the condition of the plane and the remains left behind? What is she hoping to communicate to him? Why does she feel that it is necessary to be so harsh? Is Joe in danger of losing himself to false hope when he finds the three seats that are still intact? What does he believe this proves?

Essay Topic 3

What is Project 99? Why is it so carefully kept secret? What are the moral and ethical lines that are crossed by those who are working with Project 99? How does Rose become involved to the extent that she does, and what makes her want to expose the type of work being done? Why is she unsuccessful in her attempts to do so? What makes her stop trying?

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