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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the original plan for the canal?
(a) To build large river boats for companies on the Ohio River.
(b) To create bridge building job opportunities.
(c) To provide jobs along the Ohio River.
(d) To connect Chicago, Indianapolis, Rosewater and the Ohio River.

2. What does Eliot do with the Foundation's money?
(a) Puts it into stocks and bonds.
(b) Puts it into medical research, art, and helping people.
(c) Puts it into building the Golden Gate Bridge.
(d) Puts it into buildings in New York City.

3. How does Fred Rosewater's father die?
(a) He commits suicide when he learns he has cancer.
(b) He commits suicide after his wife leaves him for a younger man.
(c) He commits suicide by hanging himself in the basement.
(d) He commits suicide after the stock market crash of 1929.

4. How does the upper-management community greet Eliot and Sylvia when they move in the old family mansion?
(a) They shun them.
(b) They try to run them out of town.
(c) They visit, offer invitations, and call.
(d) They encourage them to move to Avondale.

5. What does Eliot do after the war?
(a) He asks his father to manage the Rosewater Foundation.
(b) He travels around the country with his wife.
(c) He graduates with a business degree and worked for the Foundation.
(d) He finishes law school specializing in international law.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many books has Kilgore Trout written and in what genre?

3. Why does Eliot's psychiatrist tell Sylvia he is resigning from Eliot's case?

4. What is the name of the disease Dr. Brown attributes to Sylvia's nervous condition, and what does it mean?

5. From which side of the Rosewater family does Fred come?

(see the answer key)

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