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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 is Salim Rusan's role in Hammas' operation?

2. How does Rapp kill Hasan?

3. Where does Aziz shoot the National Security Advisor and his secretary?

4. What will Mitch do with the cameras and microphones?

5. Who is Hasan disguised as?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Secret Service agents save the President's life?

2. What happens as soon as Mitch lands at Andrew Air Force base?

3. Why does Israel say its position is?

4. What are Aziz's demands?

5. How does Mitch Rapp show his true strength in this section?

6. Why does Mitch invite Milt Adams on the mission?

7. Why does Kennedy think it is a bad idea that General Marge Tutwiler deals with Aziz?

8. What does the success of the CIA's operation depend upon?

9. What opinion does Mitch voice in the debriefing?

10. How do the CIA react when they hear Hammas will attack the Whitehouse later that day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does the public play in matters of national security? Why does the public rarely say little in such breaches of national security?

Essay Topic 2

The Transfer of Power is written in the third person. Why do you think Flynn chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would have changed if it were written in the first person?

Essay Topic 3

Look at the structure of the novel.

1) How does Flynn use character and dialogue to drive the narrative?

2) Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

3) Aside from the main character, examine the way Flynn uses the other characters in the story. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have?

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