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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Wormold goes to the Consulate to pick-up a cable, he learns that:
(a) they are waiting for a full report
(b) they don't want to know anything about his activities
(c) they want to question him
(d) they want him to talk with the security staff

2. Oriente Province, which he visits is:
(a) new market for vacuum cleaners
(b) the home of the rebels
(c) big market for vacuum cleaners
(d) a vacation resort

3. What does the Chief want?
(a) photographs of the machinery
(b) updated information
(c) a meeting with Wormold
(d) documentation

4. While they have a discussion at their table, a woman at the next table:
(a) slaps her escort
(b) faints
(c) squirts Captain Segura with seltzer water
(d) begins to shout

5. In Havana, Wormold receives a panicky phone call from:
(a) Hasselbacher
(b) Lopez
(c) Milly
(d) Captain Segura

6. Wormold tells Hasselbacher that he was offered money:
(a) to leave town
(b) for women
(c) for his business
(d) to provide information

7. Wormold invents his sub-agents by:
(a) selecting names from the Country Club list
(b) finding names in the newspaper
(c) asking at a bar
(d) talking to people and finding the ones who were interested

8. Wormold writes his sister that the vacuum cleaners aren't selling well because of:
(a) the market is glutted
(b) power outages
(c) high prices
(d) high unemployment

9. What name does Wormold mention when the police question him?
(a) Hawthorne
(b) Lopez
(c) Captain Segura
(d) Milly

10. Which of the following is not a part of Wormold's daydream?
(a) a steady flow of dividends
(b) Milly safely married
(c) retiring to England with Milly
(d) bearer-bonds

11. When Wormold receives fifteen hundred dollars for the bogus flight of the Cuban pilot, he plans to use the money:
(a) to send Milly to a Swiss finishing school
(b) to move to bigger parties
(c) to buy a new car
(d) to flee on

12. Which of the following does Hawthorne not considered a necessity for Wormold's office:
(a) a gun
(b) radio
(c) trained staff
(d) combination-safe

13. One of Beatrice's functions will be to:
(a) serve as a courier
(b) recruit new agents
(c) keep Hasselbacher away
(d) handle communications with the sub-agents

14. What is missing from Hasselbacher's apartment?
(a) his passport
(b) some papers that were thirty years old
(c) pictures
(d) money

15. Why does Wormold insist on Handling his own communication with his agents?
(a) for security purposes
(b) he has no agents
(c) Beatrice is afraid to travel to meet them
(d) Beatrice doesn's speak Spanish

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Wormold find is driving Milly home from school:

2. Wormold writes to his sister and sends his nephew:

3. What does Wormold find that Beatrice wants him to do:

4. What does Wormold use for the strange machinery sketches:

5. Wormold goes with Hasselbacher to key:

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