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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. Who calls Jason Taverner when he and Heather are heading toward Zurich?
(a) Al Bliss.
(b) Felix Buckman.
(c) Marilyn Mason.
(d) Ruth Rae.

2. How old is Kathy, the young woman to whom the motel clerk takes Jason?
(a) 19.
(b) 28.
(c) 16.
(d) 21.

3. After Jason Taverner successfully gets through the police checkpoint, Kathy grabs him from the shadows under what object?
(a) A quibble.
(b) A streetlamp.
(c) A large oak tree.
(d) A building.

4. With what kind of gun does Jason Taverner have experience?
(a) A Barber's Hoop.
(b) A Barber's Brain.
(c) A Barber's Cape.
(d) A Barber's Pole.

5. What objects does Kathy remove from Jason Taverner's identification cards once they are alone?
(a) Invisible ink scrawlings.
(b) Faulty holograms.
(c) Microsensory stickers.
(d) Microtransmitter dots.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Jason Taverner offer the motel clerk for taking him to get fake identification cards?

2. Jason Taverner's protégée attacks him with what weapon inside her apartment?

3. Who is waiting for Jason Taverner and Kathy when they arrive at their destination?

4. Heather Hart had been arrested one year prior to the novel's opening for what transgression?

5. Kathy says that her husband Jack is imprisoned in a forced labor camp in what state?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are "bleps" (52) and how do they enter the narrative?

2. To what location does the quibble driver take Jason Taverner and for what purpose?

3. What epiphany about celebrity does Jason have in Chapter 8 and why?

4. What reward does Kathy demand in return for her promise not to inform on Jason Taverner?

5. In what way does Jason Taverner interact with Cheerful Charley and what is Kathy's reaction?

6. In what ways does Buckman consider himself different from other law enforcement officials?

7. What is the setting in which Jason wakes up just after he is aware of being in the hospital?

8. What mistake on the part of the police leads to Jason Taverner's release?

9. Who is Ruth Rae?

10. In what way does the narration of Chapter 7 differ from the narration present in Chapters 1 through 6?

(see the answer keys)

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