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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Garret feels that by telling the public the murders are an attempt to block the President's budget, they have made Stevens look what?
(a) Weak, virtually precluding budget passage.
(b) Resound, almost guaranteeing the passing of the budget.
(c) Firm, almost guaranteeing his re-election.
(d) Sympathetic, almost guaranteeing his re-election.

2. During their last meeting together, who gets into a disagreement?
(a) Scott Coleman and Michael O'Rourke.
(b) Seamus O'Rourke and Michael O'Rourke.
(c) Olson and Michael O'Rourke.
(d) Seamus O'Rourke and Olson.

3. What happens when a mysterious man named Arthur Higgins observes Michael O'Rourke with Olson?
(a) He hustles Olson to a vehicle.
(b) He separates them.
(c) He follows them.
(d) He gets furious.

4. Stevens is primarily concerned with how the assassinations will affect what?
(a) U.S. tourism.
(b) His place in history.
(c) U.S. foreign trade.
(d) His freedom to travel.

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

6. What does Garret tell the National Security adviser he worries the deaths of Koslowski and Basset will do?
(a) Send the country into mass hysteria.
(b) Deadlock the Senate and House.
(c) Prevent the President's re-election.
(d) Force the President into hiding.

7. The assassin in the opening scene does not regret having killed his victims as he feels they lacked what?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Love.
(c) Courage.
(d) Honor.

8. The President suspends all official business until when?
(a) It is safe for everyone.
(b) The new security is in place.
(c) All senior staff members are in seclusion.
(d) All the assassins are apprehended.

9. In briefing Stevens and his staff about the investigation that has just begun, McMahon quickly grows impatient with whom?
(a) Mike Nance.
(b) Jim Stevens.
(c) Brian Roach.
(d) Stu Garret.

10. McMahon wants to accompany Roach to a meeting so that he can see whose face when he realizes the assassins have him as a target?
(a) Vanelli's.
(b) Garret's.
(c) Dickson's.
(d) Nance's.

11. After Basset's death, a recorded message using a computerize voice is received at the ABC television network via what?
(a) Phone.
(b) UPS.
(c) U.S. mail.
(d) FedEx.

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

13. Stevens arrives at Camp David and asks a senior agent how the killers knew what?
(a) The helicopter he was on.
(b) Virtually his every move.
(c) He was on the helicopter and not in a vehicle.
(d) He was going to Camp David.

14. 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?
(a) Economy.
(b) Foreign diplomacy.
(c) Military.
(d) Politics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Director of the FBI wants to review files of which retired or released personnel?

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

3. In Chapter 17, the assassins place several small radar units around what location as part of the trap they are laying?

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

5. Garret and Mike Nance help Stevens determine a strategy to pacify the public while helping force whom to resign?

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