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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 does Marie find highly unusual about the newspaper articles?

2. By what name does the desk clerk know Jean-Pierre?

3. What does Bourne tell Lavier over lunch that frightens her?

4. Where do the killers find Bourne?

5. What does Bourne see hidden under Lavier's phone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bourne attempt to leave Marie?

2. Why does Bourne beg for Marie's life?

3. What is unusual about Jean-Pierre's fighting abilities?

4. What is the significance of Cain's name in association with Carlos' name?

5. What does the doctor discover that is significant in his unconscious patient?

6. What does Marie's supervisor ask her to do when she calls to check in?

7. What is important about the newspaper articles in the prologue of this novel?

8. What happened to Cain in Marseilles?

9. To where does Marie trace the phone number attached to the une fiche on Bourne's account?

10. Why does Bourne insist Marie turn around and return to the hotel from which they just escaped?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is found floating in the ocean? Where is this man taken? What is unusual about this man's overall appearance? What is found in this man's arm? What do these things imply about this man to the reader? What becomes evident about this man when he regains consciousness? What is significant about this man's fighting skills? How do these skills cause this man to stand out on the small island where he has come to live? Why does the man decide he would be better off leaving the island?

Essay Topic 2

What is Les Classiques? How does Bourne discover its connection to Carlos? Whom does Bourne contact at Les Classiques? Who does Bourne recognize at Les Classiques? Who recognizes Bourne? How does he know Bourne? What does this man warn the designer about in connection to Bourne? Who does this man believe Bourne is? Who is the designer? Who does Bourne later come to believe the designer is? Why?

Essay Topic 3

What is amnesia? How does it affect the patient? Will memories ever come back? Why was Bourne told to allow his mind to wonder in times of stress? How is this supposed to help? Does it help? How? How does amnesia affect a person's personality? Can amnesia make a cold killer a nice person? Why or why not? What can the reader learn about Bourne through his actions when he has no memory of who he is? What kind of person is he? Will he ever get his memories back?

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