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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. What does Alex do with it after he finds his gun?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Fires a shot.
(c) Pulls out the ammunition cartridge.
(d) Puts it in his back pocket.

2. Why does the woman in the room where Joanna wakes up after being kidnapped laugh when she tells Joanna her name?
(a) Because she's there to rescue Joanna.
(b) Because she is Carrera's sister and likes to frighten people.
(c) She tells a joke about a bad doctor.
(d) Because she tells Joanna she won't remember the name very soon.

3. Where is Joanna when she wakes after being kidnapped?
(a) Chained in a basement.
(b) Strapped to a hospital bed.
(c) In her father's hotel room.
(d) Tied up on a kitchen floor.

4. 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.

5. Who is Rotenhausen?
(a) Abrilliant scientist who developed a brainwashing technique that was considered revolutionary.
(b) Chelgrin's head bodyguard.
(c) A German soldier who gives Alex a letter.
(d) A Russian KGB agent in the lobby.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Alex thinks the place he is belongs?

2. In what condition does Rotenhausen expect Joanna to be?

3. What happens to Marlowe's apartment when he enters and turns on the light?

4. What does Alex think about Chelgrin?

5. What is Carrera doing at the opening to Chapter 44?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Peterson do what he did and what theme does it touch upon again?

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

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

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

5. Who is Peterson and how was he involved in the entire situation?

6. What bad decision does Rotenhausen make and how does Joanna use it to save herself?

7. 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?

8. What is happening with Alex that might be similar to what was going on with Joanna? What might the reader wonder because of this?

9. 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?

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

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