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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 room in the Bayview Hotel does John request he be allowed to view in Chapter 25?

2. How does Kate tell John she learned the name of the hotel on the blanket?

3. To what does John compare this key evidence Kate is placing all the hopes of the investigation on in Chapter 17?

4. What is the nationality of the taxi driver who takes John and Kate to the office in Chapter 14?

5. What job did the woman whom Marie interviewed at the Bayview do for the hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Sidney R. Siben and how does he discredit eye witness reports of an object flying toward the plane from the ocean?

2. What question comes to John's mind after he views both the hotel room and the spot on the beach where the couple possibly videotaped the plane crash?

3. What theory of the CIA does Kate not support and John doubts?

4. Why does Kate suspect Koenig wants to see her the following morning and Steiner wants to see John?

5. Who does John ask to find Marie Gubitosi and what does he find?

6. What interview did Marie Gubitosi conduct that John now feels is significant in regards to the couple on the beach the night of the plane crash?

7. Why is Kate being sent to Africa and why has she chosen Africa over an assignment in the United States?

8. What is the result of John's meeting with Stein?

9. What key evidence did the FBI hide from Marie Gubitosi while she was investigating the couple from the beach?

10. Why do John Corey and Kate Mayfield go to a memorial on the beach each year?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the CIA say about the many witnesses who thought they saw an orange light moving toward the plane the night Flight 800 crashed? How do they support this claim? Who disputes this claim? What does Kate think of this claim? What is the readers first clue that this claim by the CIA might not be true? What does the videotape show? Is the orange light moving toward the plane or is it the burning fuselage falling to the ocean? How does the reader know for sure which it is?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the Bayview Hotel. What is the Bayview Hotel? What role does this hotel play in the investigation both when the crash happened and five years later when John begins re-investigating? Why did the FBI focus on this hotel? Why are all the employees who came into direct contact with the videotaping couple disappear? Why can John not find the records that deal with these employees or with the FBI agents who stayed at the hotel during the initial investigation? What does this imply about the actions of the original investigators?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Ted Nash. Who is Ted Nash? Why does John believe he is dead at the beginning of the novel? How does John learn Nash is still alive? Why does Nash reveal this truth to John? What is Nash afraid John will learn? Did Nash have an affair with John's wife? Why do several characters claim that Kate and Nash were lovers? What does Nash tell John about the couple who videotaped the crash? What does Nash say about the videotape? Is this true? Why does Nash offer this explanation to John?

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