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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. McMahon meets with Heaney and Dr. Kennedy, who have been reviewing ex-commando personnel files, and they decide to do what?
(a) Place their suspects under surveillance.
(b) Call suspects to active duty, dispatching them to the Middle East.
(c) Call suspects to active duty, confining them to military quarters.
(d) Narrow the field of suspects, then place them under surveillance.

3. 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) Coast Guard training.
(c) Army training.
(d) Marine training.

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. What reason is McMahon given for the President still being alive?
(a) The assassins wish to negotiate with him.
(b) The assassins wish to give him one more chance.
(c) The assassins do not wish to harm those in an adjacent public area.
(d) The assassins do not want to kill those with him.

6. In Chapter 3, Michael O'Rourke is dictating some notes when which individual, whom he does not know, storms into his office?
(a) Anthony Vanelli.
(b) Stu Garret.
(c) Jack Koslowski.
(d) Mike Nance.

7. Michael O'Rourke wants to speak with Olson before the senator leaves for what event?
(a) Camp David summit.
(b) White House conference.
(c) News conference.
(d) Legislative vote.

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

9. 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) Dickson's.
(b) Vanelli's.
(c) Nance's.
(d) Garret's.

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

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

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

13. After the war, Jackson worked for which agency?
(a) FBI.
(b) DIA.
(c) CIA.
(d) NSA.

14. Olson has given the President how long to make some real changes before exposing his budget sham?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 10 days.
(d) 1 week.

15. Michael O'Rourke lost both of his parents in a car crash caused by a drunk driver with how many prior convictions for driving while intoxicated?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jackson cautions Michael O'Rourke not to go to which agency?

2. When Nance is alone with Higgins, he tells Arthur that Warch knows that they blackmailed which legislator?

3. When assassinating Basset, what means do the killers use to avoid injuring any civilians?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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