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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 the particular French bond that Sherman is currently buying?
(a) The Algier
(b) The Giscard
(c) The D'Or
(d) The Gaulliste

2. Where do Judy and Campbell go on Friday nights?
(a) Connecticut
(b) Princeton, New Jersey
(c) Long Island
(d) White Plains

3. What does Kovitzky do after yelling at the men in the police van?
(a) Buys a coffee at the food cart
(b) Apologizes
(c) Kicks the van
(d) Spits at them

4. With whom is Sherman on the phone when he sees the Henry Lamb coverage in the City Light?
(a) Bernard Levy
(b) Lopwitz
(c) Arthur Ruskin
(d) Oscar Suder

5. In what borough of New York does Larry Kramer work as an assistant DA?
(a) Bronx
(b) Manhattan
(c) Staten Island
(d) Brooklyn

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Shelly Thomas' actual ethnicity?

2. To what elemental force does Reverend Bacon compare the nascent minority anger in Harlem?

3. Who is holding the society party that Sherman and Judy are attending?

4. Which of the following is not a letter that Henry Lamb says could be a the second letter of the Mercedes' license plate?

5. At the end of Chapter 9, what term does Fallow elicit from Henry Lamb's teacher to describe the boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sherman discover in the papers in Chapter 14?

2. Describe the protest in Chapter 13.

3. In Chapter 13, what are Sherman's thoughts about telling Judy the truth?

4. How does Tommy Killian explain the criminal justice system to Sherman in Chapter 17?

5. Why does Sherman McCoy have to go to the toilet at his firm to read the newspaper?

6. How does Annie Lamb's situation make her cooperation with the police difficult?

7. After hearing Sherman's story, what is Freddy's concern?

8. What do Detectives Martin and Goldberg discover at the parking garage by Sherman's building?

9. Why is the Herbert 92X trial becoming overblown at the Bronx courthouse?

10. How has Larry Kramer's career track been different from those of most of his classmates at Columbia?

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