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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Michael O'Rourke and Liz Scarlatti go home from Blacky's Bar, he wonders if what he told someone has resulted in what?
(a) Blackmail.
(b) A newspaper story.
(c) Murder.
(d) Dirty politics.

2. Stevens is primarily concerned with how the assassinations will affect what?
(a) His place in history.
(b) U.S. foreign trade.
(c) His freedom to travel.
(d) U.S. tourism.

3. Who is the third politician killed by the assassins?
(a) Daniel Fitzgerald.
(b) Harold Burmiester.
(c) Robert Downs.
(d) Jack Koslowski.

4. McMahon meets with Heaney and Dr. Kennedy, who have been reviewing ex-commando personnel files, and they decide to do what?
(a) Narrow the field of suspects, then place them under surveillance.
(b) Call suspects to active duty, dispatching them to the Middle East.
(c) Call suspects to active duty, confining them to military quarters.
(d) Place their suspects under surveillance.

5. What does the individual in the opening scene toss into the fire?
(a) Blood-soaked clothes.
(b) Stacks of paper.
(c) Counterfeit money.
(d) Wood.

6. When Michael O'Rourke finds out what is occurring, he insists they inform the FBI of what?
(a) Two sets of killers are in action.
(b) The killers have a Secret Service contact.
(c) More deaths are imminent.
(d) The killers have an FBI contact.

7. At the Turnquist crime scene, McMahon notes what about those guarding the congressman?
(a) Two were inside, two were outside.
(b) Each was caught off guard.
(c) Two were asleep while the other two guarded.
(d) Only one reached for his gun.

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

9. 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) Military.
(d) Politics.

10. Michael O'Rourke wants to speak with Olson before the senator leaves for what event?
(a) White House conference.
(b) Camp David summit.
(c) Legislative vote.
(d) News conference.

11. Chapter 1 begins with a description of what?
(a) An old wooden cabin surrounded by trees.
(b) An apartment in the city slums.
(c) A home in the middle-class suburbs.
(d) A camping trailer isolated in the woods.

12. Garret and Mike Nance help Stevens determine a strategy to pacify the public while helping force whom to resign?
(a) Skip McMahon, Thomas Stansfield.
(b) Arthur Higgins, Harold J. Burmiester.
(c) Brian Roach, Thomas Stansfield.
(d) Brian Roach, Skip McMahon.

13. Chapter 3 shows a brash side of Congressman O'Rourke that establishes his physical abilities and reminds the reader of Michael's what?
(a) Marine training.
(b) Coast Guard training.
(c) Army training.
(d) Navy training.

14. Who is guarding Congressman Burt Turnquist when the assassins kill him?
(a) Private security.
(b) U.S. Marshals.
(c) Military Police.
(d) Secret Service Agents.

15. In Chapter 8, Stevens refers to the killers as what during his televised news broadcast?
(a) Murderers.
(b) Commandos.
(c) Terrorists.
(d) Assassins.

Short Answer Questions

1. When McMahon asks why he should believe the caller using a voice modulator, he is reminded of what?

2. Michael O'Rourke meets Scott Coleman at the cabin to discuss Olson's murder and is told what?

3. General Heaney believes the assassins come from where?

4. When it is suggested that Stevens employ increased military security at the White House, what is his response?

5. What does Michael O'Rourke do when Olson offers to introduce him to the President?

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