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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 Solomon tell Lang when he wakes him up?

2. What does Sarah Woolf explain to Lang about McCluskey?

3. What does Lang notice about the way that the men talk in Chapter 7?

4. What does Lang think about while recovering at the King's Cross Bed and Breakfast?

5. Why does Lang explain that a piece of him wanted Woolf to die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story does Lang give Barnes when Barnes says he knows that Solomon is on a plane at that moment?

2. What does Lang speculate might be the reason that Woolf tried to hire Lang to kill him?

3. What do Solomon and Lang discuss when Solomon arrives in Lang's hospital room?

4. Describe what Solomon tells Lang in chapter four when Lang asks why the Ministry of Defence is involved in Woolf is all there is a drug charge?

5. What does Lang find when he goes to the bank in Chapter 4?

6. Describe the conversation that goes on between Lang and Spencer in Chapter 4?

7. Describe the conversation in the first chapter about breaking someone's arm.

8. Describe the conversation that Sarah Woolf and Lang have in Chapter 1 when they first meet.

9. Describe the phone conversation in Chapter 5 when Woolf calls Lang.

10. Describe the scene when Lang and Solomon first arrive at O'Neil's office.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Why does Barnes and O'Neil meet secretly in the strip club?

Part 2) What role does O'Neil play in the story?

Part 3) Why does Lang go to warn O'Neil when Lang learns about the money flow from Phillip?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Explain why the title of the book is THE GUN SELLER.

Part 2) Lang became a gun seller, only it was of the air missile rather than the helicopter. Explain how this is different.

Part 3) What other titles could have been chosen for the book? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) Why did the name of the main character remain unknown until the second chapter?

Part 2) Why did the identify of Woolf and McCluskey remain unknown until later in the book?

Part 3) When Lang is talking about himself while with the Sword of Truth why does he say 'Ricki said' rather than I?

Part 4) What is the significance of Lang believing that Barnes said Murder rather than Murdah the first time Murdah is mentioned?

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