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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. Who is Alfred Gillette?

2. What message does Carlos send to Bergeron?

3. Who is the only person alive who can identify Carlos?

4. Who do Marie and Villiers turn to for help?

5. Who decides to take the blame for Villiers' crime?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bourne discover when he goes to retrieve his car before the meeting with Conklin?

2. Who is responsible for the newspaper stories about Marie?

3. What does Bourne recall as he lays wounded on the floor of the Treadstone offices?

4. What does Villiers overhear?

5. Why is Bourne placed under government protection?

6. What orders does Carlos issue in response to Bourne's harassment of Les Classiques employees?

7. Why does CIA operative Conklin think Bourne killed the people at Treadstone?

8. What is significant about the priest visiting from Spain?

9. What motivates Alfred Gillette to sell information to Carlos?

10. What is Bourne's real name?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Marie help Bourne recover from his injuries? Why does Marie insist on staying with Bourne even when he tells her to leave? What does Marie do to try to help Bourne? Who does Marie ask to help them? What does Marie ask this person to do? What is the result? How does Marie feel about this result? Does Marie blame Bourne? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What is Operation Medusa? What part does Medusa play in Bourne's past? Who else was involved in Medusa? When did Medusa take place? Where? Why does the author continuously connect things in Bourne's present to Medusa? Would Bourne be in his current situation if he had not participated in Medusa? What happened to the majority of people who worked as part of Medusa? Why did this happen?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Villiers? How does Bourne become aware of Villiers? Why does Bourne follow Villiers? What is Bourne's first impression of Valliers? Whom does Bourne believe Villiers works for? Why does Bourne believe this? What does Villiers say when Bourne asks him about this? What reason does Villiers give for not working for this person? Does Bourne believe him?

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