View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Norman Mushari?
(a) A shyster lawyer.
(b) A lawyer who is also a distant cousin of the Rosewaters.
(c) A patent lawyer for a firm in New York.
(d) A lawyer who is Sylvia's brother.

2. What does Eliot talk about, to people idling in front of a fire station, that later gets him arrested?
(a) The importance of fire stations.
(b) A revolution happening at the time of his arrest.
(c) How rich people need to volunteer more often.
(d) A revolution to happen in about twenty years.

3. What happens when the Rosewater Inter-State Ship Canal fails?
(a) The townspeople rioted and burned down the Rosewater mansion.
(b) Investors lost their farms and Noah Rosewater bought them.
(c) The Rosewater family pulled out of town.
(d) People tried to sue the Rosewater Foundation.

4. How does Eliot's father react when he hears of Eliot's drunken behavior?
(a) He demands that Eliot check into a hospital.
(b) He goes on a tyrade and accuses Eliot of ruining his career.
(c) He tells Sylvia to take Eliot to Europe for six weeks.
(d) He refuses to worry, stating "Eliot's got fiber, he's got spine."

5. When Sylvia asks Eliot where he is calling from, how does he reply?
(a) "From a railroad station up east."
(b) "From a drab little American anywhere."
(c) "From a phonebooth in the midwest."
(d) "From nowhere you can understand."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the upper-management employees of the corporation who run the automated saw mill live?

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

3. At what age can siblings of the president of the Foundation become officers?

4. When Eliot calls Sylvia from Indiana, what does he say is the one remaining independent business in the town?

5. When does Eliot Rosewater leave law school and why?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 362 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample