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

2. 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?
(a) Pass the tax bill.
(b) Pass the budget.
(c) Pass the anti-crime bill.
(d) Pass the national education bill.

3. What is the President's reaction to Olson's murder?
(a) Fear.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Anger.

4. Whom does Dr. Irene Kennedy believe is responsible for the murders of the prominent politicians?
(a) Terrorists.
(b) Military commandos.
(c) Right-wing radicals.
(d) The Mafia.

5. 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 national security meeting.
(b) Lie, end the conference early saying he must meet a foreign diplomat.
(c) Lie, end the conference early saying he has a trade meeting.
(d) Lie, end the conference early saying he has a military briefing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Scott Coleman is afraid to use any of his contacts for information about Turnquist's death since doing so might do what?

2. Scott Coleman uses what to contact McMahon and relay information about the killings?

3. During their last meeting together, who gets into a disagreement?

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

5. Who is guarding Congressman Burt Turnquist when the assassins kill him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Chapter 15 is short and addresses what?

2. Why does Michael O'Rourke carry a concealed gun?

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

4. What measures do the assassins take in killing Speaker Basset?

5. What does Speaker of the House Thomas Basset say on television?

6. What is President Stevens doing in his meeting with Stu Garret and Mark Dickson at the start of Chapter 2?

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

8. What results from Ted Hopkinson's polls in Chapter 10?

9. Roach and McMahon rush to what meeting in the White House Situation Room in Chapter 28?

10. What happens when the Secret Service Agent in charge of Basset's protection, Agent Harry Dorle, goes to the White House after Basset's murder?

(see the answer keys)

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