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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. The President suspends all official business until when?
(a) All the assassins are apprehended.
(b) It is safe for everyone.
(c) All senior staff members are in seclusion.
(d) The new security is in place.

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

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?
(a) Nance.
(b) Roach.
(c) Stansfield.
(d) Tracy.

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

5. What is the President's reaction to Olson's murder?
(a) Fear.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Anger.
(d) Pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. McMahon and his team meet where along the Potomac River where the President's helicopter was left unprotected?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is President Stevens doing in his meeting with Stu Garret and Mark Dickson at the start of Chapter 2?

2. What measures do the assassins take in killing Speaker Basset?

3. How does the first chapter begin?

4. What is some important information about Michael O'Rourke's background that the reader learns in Chapter 7?

5. What sort of security system does Higgins employ at his personal residence?

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. How is Congressman Burt Turnquist killed?

8. What results from Ted Hopkinson's polls in Chapter 10?

9. How is Olson assassinated?

10. Roach and McMahon rush to what meeting in the White House Situation Room in Chapter 28?

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