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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 motivates the Baroness to find Caliph?
2. Why does Altmann object to this option?
3. What is condition Alpha?
4. What does Ingrid consider to be an act of hostility?
5. What is the next deadline that Ingrid announces?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the terrorists who board Speedbird 070 manage to deflect and draw attention at the same time and why?
2. What makes the Captain think that this is a carefully planned operation?
3. What part of his meeting with Parker is the most difficult for Peter to listen to and how does he respond?
4. When Peter meets Ingrid face to face, he tries to ask her questions which she refuses to answer. How does Peter manage to get the answers he wants anyway?
5. According to the demands Ingrid makes, when are the men to be released and what is significant about the timing?
6. After the South African police force is asked to pull back, the terrorists make contact a second time. What do they tell Peter that deeply affects him and why?
7. Peter is disturbed after his meeting with Ingrid and is convinced that the situation is much more serious than they initially thought. Why?
8. When Ingrid is given a counter proposal, she insists on it being delivered in person. Why?
9. Like the rest of the terrorists, Ingrid is having problems. What are they and why?
10. What is the content of the letter that arrives for Peter at the Dorchester after Melissa-Jane is kidnapped?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Terrorism is a concern on the mind of everyone who travels. In this novel, the terrorists use an inventive method of getting weapons on board. How do they accomplish this? How do they combine their assets to distract airport security? Which of the four terrorists is best able to act as distraction and why?
Essay Topic 2
Love can have its share of obstacles. Peter and Magda are no exception. While attracted to each other from the beginning, they have a number of obstacles that make a long standing relationship difficult. Name them, and explain how they might impair a relationship. How are each of these obstacles overcome?
Essay Topic 3
What is Atlas? For what purpose is it created? In what way is it successful and in what way does it fail? Who can the failure be attributed to? What is necessary to make it succeed?
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