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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lang say he realizes that Solomon must be in his apartment for?
(a) To bring him breakfast in bed.
(b) To clean the apartment.
(c) To investigate the theft of his door bell.
(d) To rub his feet and make the bed.

2. What does Solomon say when Lang says that Solomon wouldn't kill anyone for money?
(a) That he is responsible for the deaths of an entire orphanage.
(b) That he has killed more than he knows.
(c) That he has his breaking point, just like any man.
(d) That he has killed a man and two women.

3. Who shot Lang?
(a) Solomon.
(b) A security guard.
(c) McCluskey.
(d) Sarah Woolf.

4. Who gave the Ministry of Defence the information about Lang being asked to murder Woolf?
(a) An anonymous source.
(b) The Americans.
(c) An undercover police operation.
(d) Woolf.

5. Who is Lang's first visitor while in the hospital?
(a) The police.
(b) Sarah Woolf.
(c) Solomon.
(d) O'Neil.

6. What does Lang say about scars?
(a) They are chick magnets.
(b) They go with virtually any outfit.
(c) They are always good to break the ice.
(d) He is always trying to look tougher.

7. What name does Lang give the receptionist at the American Embassy when he goes to see Russell Barnes?
(a) O'Neil.
(b) A Friend.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Richie.

8. What does the man say that he is when Lang asks if he is a doctor?
(a) A son-of-a-bitch.
(b) A go-to-man.
(c) An enforcer.
(d) More like an embalmer.

9. Who does Lang learn is also in the hospital where he is being treated?
(a) The head of the CIA.
(b) Sarah Woolf.
(c) Alexander Woolf.
(d) Rayner.

10. What does the American voice on the phone say when Lang first picks it up?
(a) The Eagle has landed.
(b) Graduate Studies.
(c) Woolf Industries.
(d) Harvard University.

11. What does Woolf say is the reason that he asked Lang to commit murder?
(a) He was trying to make sure he would die how he wanted.
(b) To throw the Americans off his trail.
(c) To see what kind of man he is.
(d) To see if Lang could be bought and what was the price.

12. What does Solomon tell Lang about Woolf in Chapter 4?
(a) He is a bad lot.
(b) He will be killed. It's just a question of by who.
(c) He is living on borrowed time.
(d) He isn't such a bad guy.

13. What does the main character sit down with after he gets home?
(a) A pocket dictaphone.
(b) His rough sketch of the man who asked him to murder Sarah's father.
(c) A map of the city.
(d) A pad of paper.

14. What reason does Lang speculate is the reason that Woolf asked Lang to kill him?
(a) To slow up Woolf's other enemies.
(b) To try and separate the CIA and the Ministry of Defence.
(c) To throw the suspision off of Woolf.
(d) He has a death wish.

15. What does Lang tell Paulie he has done since he left the army?
(a) Private investigating.
(b) Worked as a night security guard.
(c) Been a dog catcher.
(d) Consultancy work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the main character tell the girl that makes her stop dialing the police?

2. Why does Lang explain is the reason that he declined the offer to kill Woolf?

3. Why does Lang say that Woolf might have picked Lang to ask to commit the murder?

4. What does Lang tell Woolf when he calls in Chapter 6?

5. Where does Solomon say that he believes Alexander Woolf is at that moment in Chapter 4 while Solomon and Lang are drinking?

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