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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 have Jill and Bud come to the beach to do?

2. What room did this woman from the Bayview Hotel tell Marie she saw a couple with a blanket leaving the night of the crash of Flight 800?

3. In what part of the investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800 did Marie participate?

4. What is the CIA's explanation for the hundreds of witness reports that claim to have seen the same thing?

5. The deaths of how many people are being memorialized in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What name does John ask Dick Kearns to give him in relation to the investigation?

3. Why does Kate tell John she would like him to re-investigate the crash of TWA Flight 800?

4. What is the CIA's theory as to the orange light many witnesses reported seeing coming from the ocean toward the plane?

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

6. What kind of camera did Nash tell Kate the lens cap came from?

7. What does Kate tell John about how she came to know about the police finding the blanket from Bayview Hotel on the beach the night of the crash?

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

9. What are the seven theories of the plane crash that Kate tells John?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss John's decision to continue pursuing the investigation even after being warned away. Why did John begin investigating the crash? Why does he continue to investigate? What is John's overall goal in investigating this crash? Does John go into the investigation with the belief that terrorists are involved, or does John have some other motive for beginning this investigation? How many times is John warned to stay away from the investigation? Who gives these warnings? What are their motives?

Essay Topic 2

The author introduces several other incidences of terror attacks that took place after the crash of TWA Flight 800. Discuss these other terror acts. How do these acts give authenticity to the plot? Who was responsible for most of these acts of terror? What was their purpose? How might these attacks have been connected to the September 11 attacks? Could these attacks have been a warning as the author appears to suggest in this novel? Was TWA Flight 800 connected to any of these acts? If so, how?

Essay Topic 3

Write a descriptive passage that discusses the motivation of one of the following characters and how that motivation impacts the development of the plot:

1) John Corey

2) Kate Mayfield

3) Jack Koenig

4) Ted Nash

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