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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. What is the name of Bill's daughter?
(a) Gloria.
(b) Denise.
(c) Lizzie.
(d) Peta.

2. What is the name of the boy Karen befriends?
(a) Peter.
(b) Omar.
(c) Rashid.
(d) Jack.

3. What does Karen call Brita's world tour?
(a) Taking the souls of writers.
(b) Flashing geniuses.
(c) Snapping pen pushers.
(d) Photographing writers.

4. What do Karen and Scott drive twenty two miles to buy?
(a) A car.
(b) Coffee.
(c) A book.
(d) A light box.

5. What does George worry Bill and Charlie about?
(a) Another bomb.
(b) Their potential deaths.
(c) A World War.
(d) Their drinking habits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Karen say has a plan for all mankind?

2. Who does Haddard say terrorism defends?

3. What word does Brita say the driver says several times?

4. To which dictator does Scott compare Bill ?

5. What does Bill say terrorism destroys?

Short Essay Questions

1. What signs are there that Karen is getting ill?

2. Why does Charlie say George is an interesting sort of academic?

3. What does Karen think about on the plane?

4. What is the plan that Charlie lays out for Bill?

5. What does Scott contemplate in Bill's office?

6. What does Bill realize about his writing in this section?

7. What does Rashid say about the identity of the people of his nation?

8. What does Bill argue about with George Haddad?

9. Summarize the novel.

10. What does Karen do with the spoon?

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