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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 Mitch want Salem to do?

2. Who traces Mitch's call to Cameron?

3. What does the man admit to Mitch?

4. Where do Agent Pelachuck and Agent Salem take Anna?

5. What is Agent Pelachuck's true identity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the gas station when Mitch follows the car that leaves his house?

2. Describe Donatella Rahn.

3. What does Mitch think about the thermal images he matches on the monitor which shows his house?

4. Describe Mitch's means of invading Stansfield's house.

5. How does Mitch become convinced that Irene did not order his death?

6. Describe Cameron's two phone lines.

7. What does Villaume tell Mitch about the person who hired him to kill the Jansens?

8. What does Mitch find in Anna's apartment, and what does he say when he phones Irene?

9. Explain Donatella Rahn's role in Chapter 25.

10. How is Anna kidnapped?

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

What role does the motif of government secrecy play in "The Third Option"? Why is this motif important to the novel's plot?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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