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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. How many square kilometers had been scoured in the search for the Lady?

2. Which way is the only escape route?

3. How has Allah blessed Ammar?

4. Who and what ended up saving the Special Forces and the majority of the hostages?

5. Why was Colonel Morton Hollis so sure of his team?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sounds like a "grand plan" to the President and to Douglas Oates?

2. What was the easiest excuse to get the security guards into the room to be killed? How were they killed?

3. What happens when Ammar pushes the button for the detonation?

4. How does Ammar feel about the people at the table?

5. What did Captain Collins consider inhuman?

6. When is the first time Pitt has been wrong in this book?

7. Who admires Giordino and why?

8. What kind of things were loaded onto the Lady Flamborough?

9. What information bothers Yeager and Dirk?

10. What was interesting about the cargo that was loaded onto the Lady Flamborough to the person that loaded it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the nature of barbarity and savages. When taken into context, although Native Americans lived primitively, the barbaric invaders were the europeans who came here and slaughtered villages. What defines a barbarian? A savage? Relate barbarity to developed nations. How do they interact?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay from research on airplane crash survivors. What kinds of things did they have to do in the name of survival? Do you think you could do the same? Why or why not? Do you think this is an accurate answer, or do you think that you might change your mind in the heat of the actual situation?

Essay Topic 3

Pick two characters from the book to compare and contrast against each other. How would the plot line have been affected if these two characters had interacted more often? How do they interact as it is? Would these two characters make a good team? Why or why not?

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