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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. What is the President's reaction to Olson's murder?

2. Who suddenly arrives at the cabin and verifies what Scott Coleman is telling Michael O'Rourke about Olson's death?

3. In Chapter 8, Stevens refers to the killers as what during his televised news broadcast?

4. Following Mark Coleman's death, Michael O'Rourke become more dissatisfied with what?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Chapter 5 begin to follow?

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

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

6. Chapter 15 is short and addresses what?

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

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

9. Using a mobile scramble phone to call McMahon, what do Michael O'Rourke and Scott Coleman tell him?

10. What does McMahon take in when he arrives at the scene of the Turnquist murder?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

On which side of the "Good versus Evil" theme is Senator Erik Olson in "Term Limits?" What actions does he take that qualify him for that position?

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