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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The assassin in the opening scene does not regret having killed his victims as he feels they lacked what?
(a) Honor.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Love.
(d) Courage.

2. How does the assassin kill Senator Daniel Fitzgerald?
(a) Lethal injection.
(b) Car bomb.
(c) Gunshot.
(d) Breaks his neck.

3. Stevens arrives at Camp David and asks a senior agent how the killers knew what?
(a) Virtually his every move.
(b) The helicopter he was on.
(c) He was going to Camp David.
(d) He was on the helicopter and not in a vehicle.

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

5. Who demands that Secret Service Director Alex Tracy fire Harry Dorle, the agent in charge of Basset's safety?
(a) Stu Garret.
(b) Mrs. Bassett.
(c) Brian Roach.
(d) Jim Stevens.

6. What does the President's Chief of Staff advise him to do if he becomes uncomfortable during an upcoming press conference?
(a) Lie, end the conference early saying he has a military briefing.
(b) Lie, end the conference early saying he has a national security meeting.
(c) Lie, end the conference early saying he must meet a foreign diplomat.
(d) Lie, end the conference early saying he has a trade meeting.

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

8. FBI Special Agent Skip McMahon is responsible for investigating the three political killings and is impressed by what?
(a) The killers' efficiency.
(b) The killers' skillfulness.
(c) The media's reporting.
(d) The killers' speed.

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) Politics.
(d) Military.

10. When McMahon asks why he should believe the caller using a voice modulator, he is reminded of what?
(a) They are more selective in their targets.
(b) They had no problem with Turnquist.
(c) They had no problem with Olson.
(d) They did not kill the President when they had the opportunity.

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

12. Garret listens in on a private meeting between his boss and which individual who convinces Stevens he needs his support to pass the budget?
(a) Fitzgerald.
(b) Olson.
(c) Nance.
(d) Dickson.

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

14. McMahon and his team meet where along the Potomac River where the President's helicopter was left unprotected?
(a) 14th Street Bridge.
(b) Aqueduct Bridge.
(c) Francis Scott Key Bridge.
(d) Chain Bridge.

15. Michael O'Rourke lost both of his parents in a car crash caused by a drunk driver with how many prior convictions for driving while intoxicated?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Garret tell the National Security adviser he worries the deaths of Koslowski and Basset will do?

2. Stevens is primarily concerned with how the assassinations will affect what?

3. 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?

4. Michael O'Rourke and his grandfather meet Olson for what shortly before the latter dies?

5. Michael O'Rourke wants to speak with Olson before the senator leaves for what event?

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