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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do some law enforcement officials believe the Jack and Jill killings are over?
(a) The poem says so.
(b) Jill is dead and Jack is captured.
(c) Kevin is captured and has confessed everything.
(d) They were both captured.

2. Who is disguised as a woman at the President's New York speech?
(a) Kevin.
(b) Cross.
(c) Mahoney.
(d) Jack.

3. What disturbance occurs while the President is on stage in New York?
(a) A bomb detonates.
(b) A heckler.
(c) A shooting spree.
(d) A riot.

4. Who is the hero after the capture of the Truth School killer?
(a) Christine.
(b) Cross.
(c) George.
(d) Danny.

5. Who escapes through the Holland Tunnel after the President's New York speech is interrupted?
(a) Sampson.
(b) Hawkins.
(c) The President.
(d) Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the President forbid Cross to do?

2. Who is the CIA assassin that Cross suspects as part of the Jack and Jill killings?

3. Why does Jack need to kill his old friend?

4. Who sees the specific information that is communicated regarding the Truth School killings?

5. Whose home does Jack sneak into in a way that is NOT characteristic of his typical murders?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Truth School killer want to talk with the investigator?

2. What does the note on the President's flowers sent to him at the New York hotel say, and why is the note so alarming?

3. Where is Roosevelt Military Academy located? Name two reasons it is important to this novel.

4. Explain the plan that Jack will use to kill the President.

5. What is unusual about the Truth School killer's attempt to enter the investigator's home? What does this show about the killer?

6. What is unusual about Jill's phone call to the President?

7. Why is the general's son a threat to Jack?

8. Why doesn't the message board censor go directly to police with the information when it first starts appearing?

9. What is the theme of the Truth School killer, and how does it explain his motive?

10. What do investigators discover when they go to the message board subscriber's home? What does their finding imply?

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