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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. Where do Seamus and Michael O'Rourke travel to meet with Augie Jackson?

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

3. Early in the investigation, McMahon and Kennedy become aware of what?

4. Michael O'Rourke wants to speak with Olson before the senator leaves for what event?

5. McMahon and his team meet where along the Potomac River where the President's helicopter was left unprotected?

Short Essay Questions

1. Chapter 15 is short and addresses what?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Dr. Kennedy getting closer and closer each day to identifying the killers in Chapter 30?

Essay Topic 2

How is the theme of hubris expanded upon in Chapter 6? The politicians making key decisions are missing what in regard to how real the threat is?

Essay Topic 3

The author employs a continued pattern of foreshadowing that runs throughout his book, and is important as it provides harbingers that are indicative of what will transpire later in the story. In Chapter 7, what foreshadowing does Michael O'Rourke's mysterious phone call with Seamus provide? Why is Flynn's use of foreshadowing in Chapter 16 so critical to the tale? Where else is foreshadowing employed in "Term Limits?"

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