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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Garret tell the National Security adviser he worries the deaths of Koslowski and Basset will do?
(a) Prevent the President's re-election.
(b) Deadlock the Senate and House.
(c) Force the President into hiding.
(d) Send the country into mass hysteria.

2. Michael O'Rourke and his grandfather meet Olson for what shortly before the latter dies?
(a) Cocktails.
(b) Dinner.
(c) Lunch.
(d) Breakfast.

3. What reason is McMahon given for the President still being alive?
(a) The assassins wish to negotiate with him.
(b) The assassins do not wish to harm those in an adjacent public area.
(c) The assassins do not want to kill those with him.
(d) The assassins wish to give him one more chance.

4. In Chapter 20, Scott Coleman warns Michael O'Rourke that there could be trouble if Olson takes the President's side, and that Michael should do what?
(a) Stay clear of the President.
(b) Stay clear of Olson.
(c) Caution Olson.
(d) Caution the President.

5. After viewing the bodies at the Turnquist crime scene, Dr. Kennedy and General Heaney believe the killers are what?
(a) Military comandos.
(b) Police S.W.A.T. members.
(c) Political extremists.
(d) Terrorists.

6. Olson has given the President how long to make some real changes before exposing his budget sham?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 2 weeks.

7. Michael O'Rourke is not comfortable with the idea that politicians are being killed, but he sympathizes with the killers and their disgust with what in America?
(a) Foreign diplomacy.
(b) Economy.
(c) Politics.
(d) Military.

8. McMahon tells his boss that he is getting no cooperation in his attempts to look at the personnel files for which members?
(a) Navy SEALs.
(b) Marine Force Reconnaisance.
(c) Air Force Special Tactics Squadron.
(d) Special Forces.

9. Where do Seamus and Michael O'Rourke travel to meet with Augie Jackson?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Maryland.
(d) Georgia.

10. Michael O'Rourke declines Olson's request to join him in the funeral procession, but then does what?
(a) He goes wearing a bulletproof vest.
(b) He joins him at the last minute.
(c) He joins him at the cemetary.
(d) He meets him afterward.

11. When it is suggested that Stevens employ increased military security at the White House, what is his response?
(a) He agrees only to hidden sharpshooters on surrounding buildings.
(b) He agrees.
(c) He declines.
(d) He agrees only to an increase in plain-clothes security.

12. The President holds a meeting in the Situation Room and announces that who will be responsible for security of the remaining senators, congressmen, and their families?
(a) Counter-commando tactics military personnel.
(b) Navy SEALs.
(c) Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) military personnel.
(d) Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) law enforcement personnel.

13. Jackson cautions Michael O'Rourke not to go to which agency?
(a) CIA.
(b) Secret Service.
(c) DIA.
(d) FBI.

14. Whom does Dr. Irene Kennedy believe is responsible for the murders of the prominent politicians?
(a) The Mafia.
(b) Terrorists.
(c) Military commandos.
(d) Right-wing radicals.

15. After the war, Jackson worked for which agency?
(a) NSA.
(b) FBI.
(c) CIA.
(d) DIA.

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite Secret Service warnings against any public appearances, Basset decides to participate in what?

2. Speaker of the House Thomas Basset says on television that he will never do what?

3. As McMahon plays the tape of the modulated call he got from Michael O'Rourke for the group in the Situation Room, who notices that Garret becomes noticeably upset?

4. When Michael O'Rourke finds out what is occurring, he insists they inform the FBI of what?

5. General Heaney believes the assassins come from where?

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