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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the history of the Rosewater fire house siren?
(a) It is a factory air raid siren from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
(b) It is an air raid siren from a small town in Maine.
(c) It is the main air raid siren in Berlin in WWII.
(d) It is the main air raid siren of London in WWII.

2. What is the name of the disease Dr. Brown attributes to Sylvia's nervous condition, and what does it mean?
(a) Shopaholism, related to her need to shop in Paris.
(b) Xenophobia, due to living in Rosewater.
(c) Samaritrophia, hysterical indifference to the less fortunate.
(d) Aniexty disorder, related to her marriage to Eliot.

3. What is a fly hunt?
(a) Catching flies with nets.
(b) KIlling flies with rubber bands or glasses.
(c) Killing flies with spray cans.
(d) Finding flies in winter.

4. Who put in the canal bisecting the county of Rosewater?
(a) Eliot's uncle who was a farmer.
(b) Eliot's father when he became a senator.
(c) Eliot's grandfather when he took over the Foundation.
(d) Eliot's great-grandfather.

5. What does Senator Rosewater lament when Sylvia arrives in America for the divorce?
(a) The lack of an heir for the family fortune.
(b) The lack of psychiatric care available to his son.
(c) The lack of courage Sylvia displays by divorcing his son.
(d) The lack of support for his senatorial campaign.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the coded shorthand AW mean in Eliot's ledger?

2. What man assumes the pseudonym of John Rosewater?

3. What is Eliot's customary gift to newborn children?

4. What is the name of Eliot's ledger?

5. What is the one rule Eliot knows to tell the newborn babies he is to baptize?

(see the answer key)

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