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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. Who kills Rowe?

2. What does Lee realize was a likely motive for Sidney to have been instructed to go to New Orleans?

3. Where does Sidney agree to an exchange of her father for the disk?

4. Why does Sidney call Sawyer from New York?

5. Where does he tell her he is going?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jackson accuse Sawyer of?

2. How does Sawyer finally resolve the issue of whether he was being confronted by one case that included Lieberman and Arthur together, or two cases where Lieberman and Arthur act independently?

3. What facts don't add up where Jeff Fisher's arrest is concerned when Sawyer investigates?

4. How does Fisher manage to outsmart the people that are following him?

5. What does Sidney do when she sees the article in the paper accusing Jason?

6. What does Sidney do after Lee stations agents outside her home to protect her?

7. What events lead Sidney to think that Jeff Fisher might be dead?

8. Why does Sidney tell Lee that Jason selling secrets to RTG makes no sense now?

9. Who kills Gamble and runs off with the disk when he thinks no one is looking and how does Sawyer know he was involved?

10. What does Jeff get Sidney for Christmas, and what does the attached card say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Arthur Lieberman? What is his overall importance? What is learned about Arthur Lieberman almost right from the very beginning? How does this affect the story overall? What is his outlook as a result? How much time does he have, and how is he managing to cope with the physical aspects of his problem? What are the emotional side effects? How might they be affecting his judgment at this point? Why does his death have such impact?

Essay Topic 2

What is encryption, and what purpose does it serve? How does encryption help to keep data private? Why is that correct only to a degree? What factors determine the strength of encryption? What is the best kind of code to use for data encryption? How long should it be? What should your code include to ensure that it will not be easily broken? In a code, how many numbers is ample for most purposes, and how many is considered to be invulnerable?

Essay Topic 3

What does Sidney do when she sees the article in the newspaper about herself and her husband? Who does she immediately confront? What does she threaten, and how does he diffuse the power in that threat? What does he show her that makes her question everything she knows? What does he threaten her with before she leaves and how much strength is in that threat? What does she notice after she picks up the paper a second time that is even more disturbing?

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