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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Eliot's customary gift to newborn children?
(a) A share of stock in General Motors.
(b) A share of stock in IBM.
(c) A share of stock in Eastman Kodak.
(d) A share of stock in Johnson and Johnson.

2. Who is next in line after Rosewater's son to become president of the Foundation?
(a) A cousin in Louisiana.
(b) A cousin in New Jersey
(c) A cousin in Delaware.
(d) A cousin in Rhode Island.

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

4. How tall is Norman Musahri?
(a) Six feet two inches.
(b) Five feet ten inches.
(c) Five feet five inches.
(d) Five feet three inches.

5. What role does the corporation perform for the Foundation?
(a) It manages the Foundation Board members.
(b) It manages the Foundaiton's gift giving.
(c) It manages the oversees holdings of the Foundation.
(d) It manages the capital of the Foundation.

6. What stipulation of the charter of the Foundation does Mushari take interest in?
(a) Anyone declared insane is immediately expelled.
(b) Anyone changing political parties is immediately expelled.
(c) Anyone caught stealing is immediately expelled.
(d) Anyone divorcing is immediately expelled.

7. When Sylvia and Eliot move to Rosewater, what is to the west of the Parthenon?
(a) The Rosewater Saw Company.
(b) The Rosewater Savings and Loan.
(c) The night crawler stands.
(d) The old railway terminal.

8. How many books has Kilgore Trout written and in what genre?
(a) Twenty seven romance paperbacks.
(b) Eighty seven science fiction paperbacks.
(c) Ninety nine dramatic fiction paperbacks.
(d) Fourteen non-fiction paperbacks.

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

10. When Eliot leads his platoon into the smoke-filled building, what happens?
(a) He accidentally kills three fire fighters.
(b) He accidentally kills three children.
(c) He accidentally kills three men in his platoon.
(d) He accidentally kills three German officers.

11. What is Eliot's title with the fire department in Rosewater when he is a child?
(a) He is the mascot of the Volunteer Fire Department of Rosewater.
(b) He is the spokesperson for the Volunteer Fire Department of Rosewater.
(c) He is the honorary fire chief of the Volunteer Fire Department of Rosewater.
(d) He is the youngest member of the Volunteer Fire Department of Rosewater.

12. What does McAllister propose as his "rather primitive idea" to Sylvia, Mushari, and the Senator?
(a) Sylvia and Eliot divorce in Mexico.
(b) Sylvia talk Eliot into leaving with her to Paris.
(c) Sylvia and Eliot attempt reconciliation.
(d) SYlvia be given control of the Foundation.

13. What happens at the opening of the opera Aida attended by Eliot and Sylvia?
(a) Eliot cries inconsolably at the end of the opera.
(b) Eliot calls out to the singers in the middle of the opera.
(c) Eliot goes to the restroom and does not return.
(d) Eliot leaps off the balcony into the crowd.

14. What meeting does Eliot attend in Milford, Pennsylvania?
(a) A revival.
(b) A science fiction convention.
(c) An AA meeting.
(d) A Foundation meeting.

15. How does Sylvia react to the proposal McAllister makes in the meeting between himself, Sylvia, Mushari, and the Senator?
(a) She immediately says yes.
(b) She leaves the room and returns to Paris.
(c) She immmediately says no.
(d) She asks for time to think.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the original plan for the canal?

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

3. What experience in the past does the Senator blame for Eliot's mental instability?

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

5. When Eliot receives a call from a man considering suicide, what question does he ask him?

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