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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Caroline and Amanita look at through opera glasses while dining?
(a) Small animals walking the piers.
(b) Stewart Buntline sleeping on his yacht.
(c) Lila Buntwater cleaning her boat.
(d) Harry Pena and his sons and their fishing traps.

2. What names has Mary Moody chose for her twins?
(a) Franklin and Josephine.
(b) Foxworth and Melanie.
(c) Frederick and Marsha.
(d) Foxcroft and Melody.

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

4. What is the Rosewater Law?
(a) The Senator's piece of legislation that regulates taxation without representation.
(b) The Senator's family rule that no one who is crazy can run the Foundation.
(c) The Senator's piece of legislation defining and regulating obscene material.
(d) The Senator's failed attempt to regulate interstate commerce.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What man assumes the pseudonym of John Rosewater?

2. What book does Fred find while looking through a books and magazine store?

3. How much is Fred Rosewater worth dead?

4. What happens when the Rosewater Inter-State Ship Canal fails?

5. In his first letter to Sylvia, what does Eliot say he has in common with the person he compares himself to ?

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