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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to this book, how many workers are on the White House staff?
(a) 75.
(b) 175.
(c) 314.
(d) 50.

2. The toaster and the coffee maker in the kitchen are from which foreign countries?
(a) Japan and Germany.
(b) Thailand and Denmark.
(c) China and the Phillipines.
(d) Mexico and Canada.

3. What city does Pinsky jump ship in?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Halifax, Nova Scotia.
(c) Washington, DC
(d) Boston, MA.

4. Why dos Eva record the taxi's license number?
(a) She liked the driver.
(b) She wanted to impress her father.
(c) She thought the driver might rob Ivy.
(d) She was exercising her memory.

5. According to this book, what is the unemployment rate for black males in Washington DC at the time?
(a) Twenty two percent.
(b) Fifteen percent.
(c) Fifty percent.
(d) Ten percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Burnham's son, Christopher, is reading the horoscope from which magazine?

2. Why will Mr. Joslin not bend the rules for Jerome?

3. Burnham's wife, Sarah, says that Derry's pubescent radicalism was due to what?

4. What is Fydor Michaelovitch Pinsky's prized commodity in the Soviet Union during the war?

5. How does Burnham describe the task he is working on as the story begins?

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