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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. Who has dinner with the librarian after the spilled coffee incident?

2. What program does Johnny use to search for terrorist codes?

3. Who lives in a nursing home?

4. Where does Wolten take Karr and Dean?

5. What is Lia's North Korean guide called?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Karr and the French inspector learn from Kensworth's sister?

2. Why does Lia think she is directed to two soldiers who want to see her? What happens instead?

3. How do Karr and Dean find out who the girl was whose purse he retrieved and who was she?

4. What does the man who grabs a phone device from the Islamic charity office do?

5. What accident does Lia have at the Islamic charity and why?

6. Briefly describe the woman whose purse gets snatched.

7. When Karr changes Deidre's travel plans, who is following him and why?

8. What leads Johnny and the NSA to consider that terrorists might be planning to bomb the Eiffel Tower?

9. Why do the American authorities debate over whether or not to inform the French about their suspicions regarding potential terrorist activity?

10. Who hired Kensworth and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define falling action as an element of plot. Discuss in detail the rising action in Deep Black. How did it flow? What role did the falling action have in the story and how did it work?

Essay Topic 2

Identify and discuss three points of foreshadowing from the novel. Did the author use foreshadowing effectively? Define foreshadowing in your essay as well.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the main characters of this book. Who was the protagonist and what separates that character or characters from the other main characters?

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