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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. Rumor has it that Higgins was forced out of the CIA as they could not control his behavior, and he often did things without whose approval?
(a) The President's and Congress'.
(b) The CIA Director's and Congress'.
(c) The President's and CIA Director's.
(d) The Dark Ops head's and CIA Director's.

5. When assassinating Basset, what means do the killers use to avoid injuring any civilians?
(a) They use a nitroglycerin-tipped bullet.
(b) They us a nitroglycerin-tipped dart.
(c) The use a low-velocity, hollow-point bullet.
(d) They us a hollow-point bullet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Jackson cautions Michael O'Rourke not to go to which agency?

3. McMahon meets with Heaney and Dr. Kennedy, who have been reviewing ex-commando personnel files, and they decide to do what?

4. Liz Scarlatti introduces herself to Stevens as a reporter for which periodical?

5. When Nance is alone with Higgins, he tells Arthur that Warch knows that they blackmailed which legislator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Augie Jackson tell Seamus and Michael O'Rourke when they travel to Georgia?

2. How does the first chapter begin?

3. At Blacky's Bar, what does Michael O'Rourke tell his girlfriend about the killers?

4. Why does Michael O'Rourke carry a concealed gun?

5. During the Situation Room meeting, McMahon plays the recording he received, and what do General Heaney and Dr. Irene Kennedy do?

6. Gus Mitchell indicates that it appears the assassins are commandos, that they have planned the murders over some time, and they would have taken advantage of what?

7. What happens during the meeting Stevens has with his advisers following Olson's assassination?

8. How is Congressman Burt Turnquist killed?

9. What message does the old man from the cemetery call and leave for McMahon?

10. How is Olson assassinated?

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