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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. Who is initially indicated as the suspected Truth School killer based on evidence reported from the specific communications?
(a) Damien.
(b) Mrs. Sumner.
(c) Sumner Moore.
(d) Col. Sumner.

2. Who is carrying false FBI credentials at the President's New York speech?
(a) Jack.
(b) Kevin.
(c) Jill.
(d) Cross.

3. What does Cross listen to after the President gets the phone call that dodges White House security ?
(a) A recording of the call that was received by the President.
(b) Sirens outside his bedroom window.
(c) The commissioner rant about the case not being solved.
(d) The President's State of the Union speech.

4. Who is shot and killed when the President's New York speech is interrupted?
(a) The President.
(b) Sampson.
(c) Jack.
(d) Hawkins.

5. Law enforcement officials thought the murder at the Kennedy Center could have been a mistake. Who did they suspect was the real target of the attack?
(a) The Supreme Court Justice.
(b) The President's girlfriend.
(c) The President.
(d) The President's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is a person communicating specific information about the Truth School killings?

2. Who does the Truth School killer hold for ransom?

3. Over which presidential retreat do Jack and Jill fly?

4. Who does Cross visit when he has trouble sleeping?

5. Who is killed at the Kennedy Center?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the investigator arrange a situation in which he could take down the Truth School killer? Explain this reasoning.

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

3. Why does the Secret Service continue moving the President through the tunnel against the investigator's advice?

4. Briefly discuss the marital problems between the Johnsons. Why are these problems important to this novel?

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

6. How does the killer respond when the message board censor removes vivid postings regarding the Truth School murders?

7. 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?

8. Why does the President decide to honor all of his scheduled appearances? Is this vanity or valor, and why?

9. Why does the Truth School killer have abandonment issues?

10. Why do Jack and Jill get another person to act as hit man in one of their murders?

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