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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 Mitch want Salem to do?

2. Whose phone rings when Mitch makes a call after speaking with Villaume?

3. What does Mitch throw into Stansfield's backyard?

4. When Salem returns to Mitch's house, who answers his question?

5. Who receives an email offering a quarter million dollars to kill someone in Chapter 25?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Irene visit Stansfield in Chapter 21?

2. Why do Coleman and Mitch have a hard time in their search for the person responsible for the attempt on Mitch's life?

3. Describe Donatella Rahn.

4. Explain Donatella Rahn's role in Chapter 25.

5. In Chapter 22, what does Mitch tell Anna when he calls her?

6. What does Mitch think about the thermal images he matches on the monitor which shows his house?

7. How is Anna kidnapped?

8. What does Clark discuss with Rudin, Midleton and Jonathan Brown in Chapter 30?

9. What does Villaume tell Mitch about the person who hired him to kill the Jansens?

10. Why is Clark angry in Chapter 24, and what does he decide?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the third person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would the novel be different if another point of view were used?

Essay Topic 2

What role does the motif of government secrecy play in "The Third Option"? Why is this motif important to the novel's plot?

Essay Topic 3

Which characters are present in the novel as the protagonist and the antagonist? Why are these characters labeled in this way?

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