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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When killing Congressman Jack Koslowski, the assassination team goes to great pains to avoid killing a dog or the owner who is a retired what?

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

3. Who demands that Secret Service Director Alex Tracy fire Harry Dorle, the agent in charge of Basset's safety?

4. McMahon tells his boss that he is getting no cooperation in his attempts to look at the personnel files for which members?

5. What does the President's Chief of Staff do at the close of Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is some important information about Michael O'Rourke's background that the reader learns in Chapter 7?

2. How is Olson assassinated?

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

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

5. Chapter 15 is short and addresses what?

6. What message does the old man from the cemetery call and leave for McMahon?

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

8. Why is Scarlatti upset in Chapter 16?

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

It appears in Chapter 32 that Michael O'Rourke has joined Scott Coleman's team. If Michael is now going to be involved in kidnapping, and possibly killing, Arthur and his guards, is he still a good guy, or is he now an evil one?

Essay Topic 2

How does the author show in Chapters 24 and 25 how Garret plans to exploit the civilians' deaths to forward his own agenda?

Essay Topic 3

How does Vincent Flynn use the first two chapters to examine the contrast between the personalities of Michael O'Rourke and Stu Garret? In what way do these two characters fall into the ongoing theme of "Good versus Evil?"

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