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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Olson has given the President how long to make some real changes before exposing his budget sham?

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

3. Following Mark Coleman's death, Michael O'Rourke become more dissatisfied with what?

4. In Chapter 17, the assassins place several small radar units around what location as part of the trap they are laying?

5. Garret instructs the President's Communications Director to ensure the public hears whose life stories?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Congressman Burt Turnquist killed?

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

5. Chapter 15 is short and addresses what?

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

7. Using a mobile scramble phone to call McMahon, what do Michael O'Rourke and Scott Coleman tell him?

8. How do Michael and Seamus O'Rourke get Senator Olson to talk about the budget summit at Camp David in Chapter 23?

9. What happens when the Secret Service Agent in charge of Basset's protection, Agent Harry Dorle, goes to the White House after Basset's murder?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Vincent Flynn use the first two chapters to examine the contrast between the personalities of Michael O'Rourke and Stu Garret? In what way do these two characters fall into the ongoing theme of "Good versus Evil?"

Essay Topic 2

How is Dr. Kennedy getting closer and closer each day to identifying the killers in Chapter 30?

Essay Topic 3

Chapters 43 and 44 are filled with symbolism. When Michael O'Rourke spits blood at Nance, the National Security Adviser is covered which is symbolic of what? Nance is responsible for which deaths and how?

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