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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the assassin kill Senator Daniel Fitzgerald?
(a) Lethal injection.
(b) Gunshot.
(c) Breaks his neck.
(d) Car bomb.

2. Garret and Mike Nance help Stevens determine a strategy to pacify the public while helping force whom to resign?
(a) Brian Roach, Thomas Stansfield.
(b) Brian Roach, Skip McMahon.
(c) Arthur Higgins, Harold J. Burmiester.
(d) Skip McMahon, Thomas Stansfield.

3. FBI Special Agent Skip McMahon is responsible for investigating the three political killings and is impressed by what?
(a) The media's reporting.
(b) The killers' speed.
(c) The killers' efficiency.
(d) The killers' skillfulness.

4. Chapter 3 shows a brash side of Congressman O'Rourke that establishes his physical abilities and reminds the reader of Michael's what?
(a) Navy training.
(b) Marine training.
(c) Army training.
(d) Coast Guard training.

5. The individual storming into Michael O'Rourke's office threatens him with what if he does not vote as he is told?
(a) Political isolation.
(b) Blackmail.
(c) Death.
(d) Severe physical injury.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, President Jim Stevens is meeting with Stu Garret and Mark Dickson to plot how to obtain the votes necessary to accomplish what?

2. As Michael O'Rourke and Liz Scarlatti go home from Blacky's Bar, he wonders if what he told someone has resulted in what?

3. In Chapter 8, Stevens refers to the killers as what during his televised news broadcast?

4. Michael O'Rourke is not comfortable with the idea that politicians are being killed, but he sympathizes with the killers and their disgust with what in America?

5. In briefing Stevens and his staff about the investigation that has just begun, McMahon quickly grows impatient with whom?

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