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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kilgore Trout do for a living?
(a) He is a retail clerk in a large retail outlet chain.
(b) He is a stock clerk in a trading stamp redemption center.
(c) He is a librarian.
(d) He is a cashier at a fast food restaurant.

2. Who is Mushari's favorite law professor in school?
(a) Leonard Leech.
(b) Leonard Cohen.
(c) Simon Smith.
(d) Archibald Creech.

3. What does Caroline leave out in the house that Fred compares to a pet anteater who sleeps in doorways?
(a) The basket filled with wood.
(b) The Electolux vaccum cleaner.
(c) The box of Christmas decorations.
(d) The filled laundry basket.

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

5. What news does Senator Rosewater deliver to his son when he comes to visit him?
(a) McAllister wants him to leave the country.
(b) He is no longer head of the Foundation.
(c) His visit with Sylvia has been cancelled.
(d) Mushari is going to try and prove him insane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fred learn about himself and his family while reading the Rosewater Family History?

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

3. Who rented the office space in Rosewater before Eliot did?

4. In the first sentence of the novel, what is identified as a leading character in the story?

5. What position does Eliot hold with the Rosewater Fire Department?

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