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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 comes of Hopie's and Hope's education argument?
(a) Hope grounds Hopie and sends her to bed without supper.
(b) Hope agrees with Hopie and abolishes all educational programs sponsored by the government.
(c) Hope laughs at Hopie and tells her that she will understand it when she grows up.
(d) Hope puts Hopie in charge of the Department of Education.

2. What does Senator Stonewall suggest in Chapter 3?
(a) Hope should get a baby sitter.
(b) Hope should join him for poker on Wednesdays.
(c) Hope should retire as Tyrant to take care of the baby.
(d) Hope should put the baby up for adoption.

3. Who is Amber?
(a) Khukov's mistress.
(b) Robertico's mother.
(c) Hope's gift from Khukov.
(d) Hope's secretary.

4. How does Hope react to the representatives leaving Congress?
(a) He doesn't really care.
(b) He banishes them from the realm.
(c) He has them executed.
(d) He decides to abolish Congress.

5. How does Hope show that he will ensure the freedom of speech for his people?
(a) He allows the people to speak out agaisnt the government.
(b) He allows a journalist to insult him without punishing him for it.
(c) He writes it into his new constitution.
(d) He institutes a planet wide comment and complaint system for the people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the general idea of Hope's speech?

2. How does Hope react when he is advised to find a baby sitter?

3. What dead person first appeared to Hope?

4. What does this novel claim to be?

5. What keeps the bubble afloat in its proper place in the atmosphere?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the press conference in Chapter 5, and how does it help to define Hope's new Tyrancy?

2. Describe Hopie's feelings about education. How does Hope react to her opinion?

3. How does the plan of Khukov and Hope work out?

4. What is the Saturnine plan, and how does Tocsin factor into it?

5. In Chapter 2, what is the state of the Tyrancy?

6. How does Hope feel about his appointment as Tyrant?

7. Describe Amber.

8. Explain why Hopie is unhappy. How does she come to understand the situation?

9. Describe the women in Hope's life.

10. Describe how the Navy affected Hope's rise to power.

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