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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. Where is Joanna when she wakes after being kidnapped?
(a) Strapped to a hospital bed.
(b) Chained in a basement.
(c) In her father's hotel room.
(d) Tied up on a kitchen floor.

2. Where do Joanna and Alex go?
(a) To a local museum to meet Carrera.
(b) To a local museum to meet Chelgrin.
(c) To the police.
(d) To a local museum to meet Peterson.

3. What do they find in Chelgrin's room?
(a) Chelgrin is there but says they are in danger and all three must leave London.
(b) His body and a letter of apology to Joanna.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A letter of apology to Joanna but no Chelgrin.

4. What does Alex learn from a contact at his firm?
(a) That Senator Chelgrin is a likely candidate for a Supreme Court appointment.
(b) That the lawyer that supposedly handled Joanna's inheritance does not exist.
(c) That the lawyer who supposedly handled Joanna's inheritance has been dead for 15 years.
(d) That Carrera is on his way to Japan.

5. What does the caller tell Chelgrin?
(a) Where and when to meet a secret contact.
(b) That Lisa is dead.
(c) That Lisa is looking for Chelgrin.
(d) That Chelgrin is to pull out of politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alex do with it after he finds his gun?

2. What does Alex think about Chelgrin?

3. What does Thomas Chelgrin tell Lisa was the name of the program he was in from Russia?

4. What does Joanna tell Inamura?

5. How does Alex respond to the Herr Doktor's activities?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who approaches Joanna and Alex immediately in London? What might the reader wonder and what does the person say that alleviates concern?

2. What bad decision does Rotenhausen make and how does Joanna use it to save herself?

3. What happens to Joanna and Alex when they arrive in St. Moritz? What does Peterson have to do with it and what might a reader be wondering at this point?

4. What does Inamura use to free Joanna of the compulsion?

5. By Chapter 42, how do you think the reader feels about Thomas Chelgrin. How does the character actually turn out?

6. Who does Joanna find when she goes to look for Alex? What does she learn from him? What theme might be suggested by the encounter?

7. How do Alex and Joanna leave London and what happens that surprises Alex? What does this make him suspect?

8. What is Carrera ordered to do when Joanna leaves Japan? How does he feel about the orders? What does his thoughts evoke in the reader?

9. What does the hypnosis session do in the novel as far as narrative technique is concerned?

10. Where is Peterson in Chapters 53-59, what does he witness, and what might the reader wonder about him because of his behavior?

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