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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. Where does John call Sandy from after leaving Vietnam from Boxwood Green?

2. What time did phase four of Boxwood Green begin?

3. Which of the following things does Ritter not tell MacKenzie when visiting him in Chapter 35?

4. What does John put Billy in to interrogate him on Battery Island?

5. What was the name of the operation John worked with the man who recognizes John at Quantico?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are John's acts in Phase Three of operation Boxwood Green described?

2. How is Ritter's meeting with the KGB resident agent at a zoo described?

3. How do the police use Xantha to find the drug lab she was held in?

4. How have the conditions changed for the prisoners at Sender Green after operation Boxwood Green is botched?

5. How does Henry Tucker find out about Doris going to the police about Pam's death?

6. What is the nature of John's conversation with Hick's in regard to Boxwood Green?

7. What is the nature of the conversation between John and Irvin in regard to operation Plastic Flower?

8. What does John do with Doris after finding her with Billy in a building?

9. What does Xantha tell a police officer that picks her up on the street after John released her?

10. How is Doris's body found?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the portrayal of mourning shown in the book. What can we learn about the nature of John based on his ways of mourning his dead wife and Pam? Do women appear to be a soft spot for this hardened character?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the presence of treachery in the book. How is Zacharias' treachery different from Charon's? How does the author present treachery as something that is sometimes unavoidable or easily manipulated?

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