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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 Dom Fanelli promise John he will be the following morning?

2. For what reason do they use this number of cars to transport them to the meeting?

3. What question about the possible rental of a video tape by the suspected lovers bothers John in Chapter 37?

4. Where do John and Kate spend their final night together before both go to their respective assignments overseas?

5. Who does John have breakfast with the morning of September 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does John arrange to meet with Nash the following morning? What is significant about this location?

2. How does John ensure that Jill Winslow's husband will not be home when he goes to talk to her?

3. What does Jill promise to do for John when Kate arrives?

4. What does Kate have to say about the conspiracy to hide the tape when John is done catching her up on the case?

5. John returns to the Bayview Hotel and learns what about the process to check out books from the hotel library?

6. What is Jill's biggest fear now that John knows the truth about the videotape?

7. What does Nash claim was on the videotape the couple on the beach took the night of the plane crash?

8. On what day does John return from Yemen? Why is this day significant?

9. How does John know that Jill made a copy of the videotape?

10. What method does Jill insist was used to destroy the original videotape of the plane crash?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following themes in detail, including examples from the novel:

1) Terrorism

2) Political conspiracy

3) Infidelity.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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