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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 do the newly arrived visitors at David's home want David to travel?

2. Who blows up a bronze statue less than fifteen feet from the Security Headquarters?

3. Where are the visitors who meet David at his home from?

4. How does David get away from his assailant in the alley behind the restaurant?

5. After escaping from the room where the athletes are being held hostage, whom do Alix and David run into in the hallway?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Alix finally communicates with David after escaping the dragnet set up to catch her, what does she tell David?

2. Why is David surprised when the Soldier takes him to meet the Fuhrer and the Fuhrer turns out to be Benjamin Rabinowitz?

3. What images does Alix relive in her mind as she walks and tries to clear her head in the morning the attacks are to begin?

4. What does the Soldier tell the Engineer and Architect before they get down to business?

5. Why does Alix insist on typing out the demand rewrites herself?

6. How is the strike team planning to gain access into the Olympic Village?

7. What idea is first suggested by Ben-Iban, but becomes so well received that Essmann takes credit for the idea?

8. What does Alix suddenly realize about David when she sees him again in the Olympic Village?

9. What does David learn about Elena and Nick's death that he has trouble comprehending?

10. What does David realize about Alix as he listens to her explanation of why his wife, grandmother, and brother were all killed on Benjamin's orders?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the Storm Troop and the Gestapo. How are the two groups similar in terms of constituents, philosophies, and tactics? How are the two groups different? Support your answer with examples from the story.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the course of the novel, David is involved with two quite different women. Compare and contrast the relationship David has with Alix to the relationship David had with Heather. Compare and contrast the two women. What does David gain through his relationship with each of these women?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the characteristics, roles, loyalties, and agendas of the following people in the story: Harry Callaghan, Benjamin Rabinowitz, Elena Strauss, and Ben Essmann.

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