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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the Turnquist crime scene, McMahon notes what about those guarding the congressman?
(a) Two were inside, two were outside.
(b) Only one reached for his gun.
(c) Each was caught off guard.
(d) Two were asleep while the other two guarded.

2. General Heaney believes the assassins come from where?
(a) Middle East.
(b) United States.
(c) International.
(d) Far East.

3. Scott Coleman uses what to contact McMahon and relay information about the killings?
(a) Pay phone and a voice modulator.
(b) Mobile scramble phone and a voice modulator.
(c) Splice into phone line and a voice modulator.
(d) Disposable phone and a voice modulator.

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

5. Garret listens in on a private meeting between his boss and which individual who convinces Stevens he needs his support to pass the budget?
(a) Olson.
(b) Dickson.
(c) Fitzgerald.
(d) Nance.

6. As McMahon plays the tape of the modulated call he got from Michael O'Rourke for the group in the Situation Room, who notices that Garret becomes noticeably upset?
(a) Tracy.
(b) Roach.
(c) Nance.
(d) Stansfield.

7. What does the man on the back of the motorcycle do upon pulling next to Olson's vehicle?
(a) Fires a machine gun into the back seat.
(b) Tosses a dark bag on the vehicle's roof.
(c) Tosses a brown paper bag on the vehicle's roof.
(d) Empties a semi-automatic handgun into the back seat.

8. According to Jackson, the first victim to die together with his guards may have been killed for what reason?
(a) For power.
(b) For knowledge.
(c) For revenge.
(d) To mislead.

9. Following Mark Coleman's death, Michael O'Rourke become more dissatisfied with what?
(a) The American legal system.
(b) American politics.
(c) American democracy.
(d) America's crime problem.

10. Jackson tells the O'Rourke men that he believes who is responsible for the deaths of Olson and Turnquist?
(a) Garret.
(b) Higgins.
(c) Nance.
(d) Stansfield.

11. The Director of the FBI wants to review files of which retired or released personnel?
(a) DIA.
(b) CIA.
(c) FBI.
(d) Special Forces.

12. What does the President's Chief of Staff advise him to do if he becomes uncomfortable during an upcoming press conference?
(a) Lie, end the conference early saying he has a trade meeting.
(b) Lie, end the conference early saying he must meet a foreign diplomat.
(c) Lie, end the conference early saying he has a military briefing.
(d) Lie, end the conference early saying he has a national security meeting.

13. Michael O'Rourke declines Olson's request to join him in the funeral procession, but then does what?
(a) He meets him afterward.
(b) He goes wearing a bulletproof vest.
(c) He joins him at the cemetary.
(d) He joins him at the last minute.

14. Garret instructs the President's Communications Director to ensure the public hears whose life stories?
(a) The four Secret Service Agents' and a police officer's.
(b) Olson's and the four Service Agents' killed with him.
(c) Olson's, Fitzgerald's, Koslowski's, and Downs'.
(d) The Four Secret Service Agents' killed in a car bombing.

15. In Chapter 20, Scott Coleman warns Michael O'Rourke that there could be trouble if Olson takes the President's side, and that Michael should do what?
(a) Caution the President.
(b) Stay clear of the President.
(c) Stay clear of Olson.
(d) Caution Olson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Seamus and Michael O'Rourke travel to meet with Augie Jackson?

2. The assassin in the opening scene does not regret having killed his victims as he feels they lacked what?

3. The President suspends all official business until when?

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. When it is suggested that Stevens employ increased military security at the White House, what is his response?

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