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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 Villanue request that Cameron refuses to give?

2. Where does Mitch land?

3. What is Mitch's profession?

4. Who gives Irene permission to kill Count Heinrich Hagenmiller IV?

5. How long will the Jansens' trip for which they are packing last?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens between Jeff Duser and Mario Lukas?

2. What do Senator Clark and Rudin discuss in Chapter 4?

3. Describe Mitch's phone conversation with Irene Kennedy.

4. What is Mitch doing at the beginning of Chapter 1, and how does he feel about it?

5. Who does Mitch think tried to kill him, and what does he do the next morning?

6. Who calls the police, why, and how do the police react?

7. Describe Irene's conversation with Thomas Stansfield in Chapter 8.

8. What does Mitch do in Freiburg?

9. What happens to Mitch during his mission, and how does he react?

10. Describe the conversation between President Hayes and Ambassador Koch.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which characters are present in the novel as the protagonist and the antagonist? Why are these characters labeled in this way?

Essay Topic 2

How does the third person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would the novel be different if another point of view were used?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the main themes in this novel (manipulation, assassination, etc.) and detail its recurrences throughout the novel. What does it add to the novel? How does it affect the different characters?

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