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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 is Infiniface short for?

2. What did Rachel ask Mercy to do?

3. What does Joe ask Mercy, making Barbara feel sorry for him?

4. What does he finally do?

5. Who is responsible for their escape?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Infiniface members reveal they wear robes and shave their heads?

2. What miraculous admission does Mercy make that gives Joe hope again?

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

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

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

6. What actually caused the crash and why is it so unusual?

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. How does Joe counter her pessimism regarding the possibility that anyone could have survived?

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

What similarities are there between CCY-21-21 and SSW-89-58? How are their beginnings related? Why are they valued differently by their handlers? While both are feared to some degree, why is only one is kept in a strictly controlled and isolated environment? What would the outcome of freedom for this subject be? How do the handlers ensure cooperation?

Essay Topic 3

What kind of tasks is SSW-89-58 asked to perform on behalf of his handlers, his doctors and the government? What do they call these special missions? Why are they given that name? What are the five rewards given to SSW-89-58 for performing as he is directed to? What are the five punishments that can be doled out should the subject refuse to participate as directed, or stray from within the parameters of his instructions? What is the most fearsome trait that this subject is revealing?

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