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

2. What does the individual in the opening scene toss into the fire?

3. Stevens agrees the FBI must take the tape seriously, but, at whose suggestion, does not want its contents known by anyone else?

4. Liz Scarlatti introduces herself to Stevens as a reporter for which periodical?

5. What reason does Jackson give Michael O'Rourke for not going to the agency he names?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Congressman Burt Turnquist killed?

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

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

4. What does the file that Jackson gives to Michael O'Rourke contain?

5. At Blacky's Bar, what does Michael O'Rourke tell his girlfriend about the killers?

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. In Chapter 4, what are some skills that Vince Flynn demonstrates are required of the President?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the symbolism of the assassin dressed as an elderly veteran in Arlington Cemetery contrast with that of the political characters in Chapter 17? What do his prayers reflect?

Essay Topic 2

Chapters 43 and 44 are filled with symbolism. When Michael O'Rourke spits blood at Nance, the National Security Adviser is covered which is symbolic of what? Nance is responsible for which deaths and how?

Essay Topic 3

In what fashion does Michael O'Rourke's involvement in the assassins' mission greatly increase in Chapter 31?

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