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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 Cameron ask Mitch to guarantee if he gives him what he wants?

2. Who does Mitch order to do a search of former intelligence workers?

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

4. Who books a hotel as Mary Jones?

5. Near the end of Chapter 29, Mitch offers to negotiate what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the conversation between Cameron and Villaume in Chapter 27.

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

3. Describe the conversation between Mitch and Cameron in Chapter 36.

4. Describe Donatella Rahn.

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

6. Why does Irene visit Stansfield in Chapter 21?

7. How is Anna kidnapped?

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

9. What does Cameron tell Anna at Mitch's house?

10. Why is Clark angry in Chapter 24, and what does he decide?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does social class play in "The Third Option"? What different classes are represented and by which characters?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Mitch Rapp and Peter Cameron.

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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