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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. Why does Sidney call Sawyer from New York?

2. What is slowing down their progress to that destination?

3. What does she retrieve from that home?

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

5. Where are Sawyer and Jackson trying to get to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sidney fail to notice when she gets to her parents' home in Maine?

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

3. What final information does Sidney add to the puzzle regarding her conversation with Kay?

4. Why is Sawyer in such a hurry to get to Bell Harbor?

5. How do Sawyer and Jackson manage to get a flight to Bell Harbor?

6. What does Jackson accuse Sawyer of?

7. What information does Sawyer glean from his conversation with Tiedman?

8. How do they convince Sidney to come to them yet again?

9. What does Kay reveal to Sidney when asked what Jason was working on?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Jeff explain to Sidney? How does this impact on her behavior from this point forward? How does Jeff explain the method by which Jason managed to answer her call to her office? What does Jeff tell Sidney that no one in their right mind can claim? What does he do that helps to put her mind at ease before he continues? What condition makes the file useless to them in its current state?

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 motivates Quentin Rowe? How does he see the immediate future changing, and what kind of revolutions will result? Why does Rowe's vision of the future unnerve Sawyer? What does Sawyer compare Rowe's vision of the future to? What potential risks does he envision? Why does the detective believe that the potential gains will not outweigh the potential dangers in the scenario as described by Rowe?

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