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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 does Woolf ask Lang when Lang finds him in the room?

2. Why does Lang say that Woolf might have picked Lang to ask to commit the murder?

3. Why does Lang explain that a piece of him wanted Woolf to die?

4. What does Leather face tell Lang as he walks out of the room in regard to getting a doctor for Lang?

5. What does Woolf tell Lang is lying beside Lang's phone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in chapter five when Lang begins to follow McCluskey?

2. Describe the conversation that goes on between Lang and Spencer in Chapter 4?

3. Describe the conversation in the first chapter about breaking someone's arm.

4. What does Lang find while trying to get out of the building?

5. What happens when Lang enters the art gallery following McCluskey?

6. What story does Lang give Barnes when Barnes says he knows that Solomon is on a plane at that moment?

7. What happens when Solomon arrives at Lang's apartment?

8. What does Lang recall about the man that approached him for the job of killing Woolf?

9. What does O'Neil tell Sarah Woolf when he comes to talk to her and Lang in Chapter 3?

10. What does Lang find when he goes to the bank in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pick one of the following to write about:

Part 1) Do you think it would have been more unnerving to be the shooter or the person on the slopes knowing that a shot was coming? Explain your answer.

Part 2) Lang didn't like the code name, Operation Deadwood. Pick another name for the operation and explain why it is more appropriate.

Part 3) Would you rather have been one of the hostages in the building or one of the members of the Sword of Truth? Explain why.

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Why did the name of the main character remain unknown until the second chapter?

Part 2) Why did the identify of Woolf and McCluskey remain unknown until later in the book?

Part 3) When Lang is talking about himself while with the Sword of Truth why does he say 'Ricki said' rather than I?

Part 4) What is the significance of Lang believing that Barnes said Murder rather than Murdah the first time Murdah is mentioned?

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) Why does Barnes and O'Neil meet secretly in the strip club?

Part 2) What role does O'Neil play in the story?

Part 3) Why does Lang go to warn O'Neil when Lang learns about the money flow from Phillip?

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