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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jackson cautions Michael O'Rourke not to go to which agency?
(a) CIA.
(b) DIA.
(c) FBI.
(d) Secret Service.

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

3. Michael O'Rourke meets Scott Coleman at the cabin to discuss Olson's murder and is told what?
(a) Scott can neither confirm nor deny.
(b) Scott cannot tell Michael who did it.
(c) Scott is not responsible.
(d) Scott is responsible.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Michael O'Rourke is home contemplating what he has told someone as an assassin is watching him from where?

2. Stevens is primarily concerned with how the assassinations will affect what?

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

4. The Ted Hopkinson poll shows that what percentage of those asked feel the nation will be better off after the political killings?

5. FBI Special Agent Skip McMahon is responsible for investigating the three political killings and is impressed by what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Gus Mitchell indicates that it appears the assassins are commandos, that they have planned the murders over some time, and they would have taken advantage of what?

2. How is Olson assassinated?

3. Why is Scarlatti upset in Chapter 16?

4. What does Augie Jackson tell Seamus and Michael O'Rourke when they travel to Georgia?

5. What happens when Michael O'Rourke hangs up on the President?

6. What takes place at the meeting at Camp David in Chapter 20?

7. What happens during the meeting Stevens has with his advisers following Olson's assassination?

8. What are some of the things FBI Special Agent Skip McMahon recognizes upon his arrival at the three assassination scenes?

9. During the Situation Room meeting, McMahon plays the recording he received, and what do General Heaney and Dr. Irene Kennedy do?

10. How do Michael and Seamus O'Rourke get Senator Olson to talk about the budget summit at Camp David in Chapter 23?

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