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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the local fire department located?
(a) In the old Rosewater Opera House.
(b) In the old saw mill.
(c) In the old carriage house of the mansion.
(d) In the back of the Rosewater Memorial Library.

2. While the Senator is talking with Eliot in his apartment, what occurs?
(a) The alarm clock goes off at noon and Eliot sounds the noon time siren at the fire house.
(b) Eliot screams at hearing the news and sets off the siren at the fire house.
(c) Eliot asks his father what time it is.
(d) Eliot storms out of the room and runs to the fire station to hide.

3. When in New Egypt, New Jersey, with whom does Eliot trade his dress suit and for what?
(a) With a volunteer fireman for a 1939 double breasted suit.
(b) With a police officer for release from jail.
(c) With a homeless man for a bottle of whiskey.
(d) With a woman for her car.

4. 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 to happen in about twenty years.
(c) How rich people need to volunteer more often.
(d) A revolution happening at the time of his arrest.

5. What does Eliot tell Sylvia about the fire department he has found in Iowa?
(a) They put soap in their hoses to help wash their trucks.
(b) They put soap in their hoses to get the water through wallboard faster.
(c) They have a dalmation as a mascot.
(d) They have asked Eliot to become their mascot.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Fred Rosewater's father die?

2. Where does Eliiot Rosewater meet his wife?

3. What does Mushari do with the letter he finds in McAllister's files concerning the president of the Foundation?

4. Who does Lila find asleep on the couch in the study every day when she comes home?

5. Where does Fred Rosewater have coffee and Danish each morning?

(see the answer key)

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