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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. What is the name of the politician Bourne believes he killed?

2. What surgeries does Dr. Washburn suspect the man has had?

3. Where does Bourne find Marie?

4. What does Marie discover when she sees the evening paper?

5. Where does Marie learn the Paris number attached to Bourne's bank account is for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Cain's name in association with Carlos' name?

2. How does Lavier come to suspect Bourne is Cain?

3. What is included in Bourne's account that causes the flurry of activity after he calls the bank?

4. Why does Bourne beg for Marie's life?

5. Why does Bourne insist Marie turn around and return to the hotel from which they just escaped?

6. Where does Marie St. Jacques work?

7. Why does Jean-Pierre go to the Carillon de Lac and what does he learn there?

8. What does the man in the restaurant tell Bourne?

9. Who is Cain?

10. What happens when Bourne visits Chernak?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the real Jason Bourne? What kind of person was Jason Bourne? What role did Bourne play in Operation Medusa? What was Bourne's code name? What did Jason Bourne do before the Vietnam War? How should this occupation have warned Operation Medusa's leaders of his future actions? What happened to Jason Bourne? Who killed him? Why? How did this impact his killer's life? What evidence is there of this impact?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Carlos? What is significant about the newspaper articles features in the prologue? What do these articles tell the reader about Carlos? How do these articles foreshadow Carlos' part in the developing plot? What is significant about Carlos' origin of birth? What is significant about Carlos' suspected whereabouts?

Essay Topic 3

What is amnesia? How does it affect the patient? Will memories ever come back? Why was Bourne told to allow his mind to wonder in times of stress? How is this supposed to help? Does it help? How? How does amnesia affect a person's personality? Can amnesia make a cold killer a nice person? Why or why not? What can the reader learn about Bourne through his actions when he has no memory of who he is? What kind of person is he? Will he ever get his memories back?

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