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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Joanna and Alex go to a residential section of London when they are driving their rental car?
(a) To see how the British live.
(b) To find Joanna's sister.
(c) To steal another car.
(d) To shake a tail.

2. What does Alex think about Chelgrin?
(a) Alex does not trust Chelgrin.
(b) Alex thinks Chelgrin is a CIA plant.
(c) Alex thinks Chelgrin wants to kill Joanna.
(d) Alex thinks Chelgrin's been brainwashed also.

3. What was Alex's nightmare about the night they spent in the inn?
(a) Joanna lying on a steel operating table.
(b) Doctors and Rio.
(c) Joanna running from him.
(d) Wayne being killed in the hospital.

4. What does Joanna grab from a nearby tray?
(a) A wrench.
(b) A syringe.
(c) An IV bottle.
(d) A scalpal.

5. What happens to Marlowe's apartment when he enters and turns on the light?
(a) The light will not come on.
(b) It explodes.
(c) Carrera is waiting and beats him up.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What wakens Joanna and Alex the first morning in London?

2. How does Alex respond to the Herr Doktor's activities?

3. How does Carrera get Alex and Joanna out of the hotel?

4. Where do Joanna and Alex fly to from England?

5. What is Mariko hesitant about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Alex when he wakes up and what does he do immediately? What does he find and what does it make him wonder?

2. How do Alex and Joanna leave London and what happens that surprises Alex? What does this make him suspect?

3. Who does Joanna find when she goes to look for Alex? What does she learn from him? What theme might be suggested by the encounter?

4. What happens to Alex and Joanna's hotel room and what might this suggest to the reader?

5. How does Alex feel about the inn where they stop and what does it make him wonder? What type of theme might his situation bring up?

6. Who approaches Joanna and Alex immediately in London? What might the reader wonder and what does the person say that alleviates concern?

7. What happens to Joanna and Alex when they arrive in St. Moritz? What does Peterson have to do with it and what might a reader be wondering at this point?

8. How is the theme of romance explored in Chapters 42-44?

9. What does the hypnosis session do in the novel as far as narrative technique is concerned?

10. How might a reader respond to what is going on with Alex and what is the evidence to suggest that Alex and Joanna are being manipulated?

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