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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 the name of the man who Tony and Eddie work for and is their drug source?

2. What does John do to a man he catches robbing a random woman on the street?

3. How many weeks does John plan on resting on his island after Pam's death?

4. Whose form does John read regarding Pam's death on his way to his island?

5. What hospital is John taken to after he is shot and Pam is taken?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John do when he introduces himself to Pierre Lamarck?

2. How does John act toward Sandy after running into her in Chapter 12?

3. How does John know Admiral Maxwell?

4. How does Grishanov get Zacharias to drink vodka despite it being against his religion?

5. How does John try to fit into the neighborhood scenery when conducting surveillance and looking for Pam's killer?

6. How does John act after returning to Battery Island just after Pam's death?

7. What does Pam tell John she wishes to do for the women held captive by Henry Tucker?

8. How did John and Pam first meet?

9. How is Zacharias's interrogation by Colonel Grishanov first described in the book?

10. What does the drone first show Maxwell, Greer, and Podulski in regard to the prison Zacharias is being held?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the portrayal of war in the book. What role does the Vietnam War play? What appears to be the author's opinion of this war?

Essay Topic 2

Drugs have a large presence in the book and contributed to much conflict for the protagonist and others.

Part 1.) What impact does the presence of drugs have on the central conflicts of the story?

Part 2.) What might the author be saying about the nature of drug dealers and the way they run their operations based on the portrayal of Henry Tucker?

Part 3.) In what way might the author wish to use drugs as a way of inputting an element of danger within the text? What purpose does he have for this?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the presence of psychology in the book. What can the reader learn about the mental state of the book's characters, namely John, based on the police detective's use of a psychologist while searching for the murderer of Henry's drug thugs?

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