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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the first sentence of the novel, what is identified as a leading character in the story?
(a) Norman Mushari.
(b) A sum of money.
(c) Eliot Rosewater
(d) Sylvia Rosewater.

2. How does Eliot answer the telephone, both day and night, in his office?
(a) "This is the Rosewater Foundation. How can we help you?"
(b) "This is the Rosewater Foundation. The office is now closed."
(c) "This is the Rosewater Foundation. Please leave a message."
(d) "This is the Rosewater Foundation. My name is Eliot."

3. From what law school did Norman Mushari graduate?
(a) Cornell Law School.
(b) Yale Law School.
(c) Tulane Law School.
(d) Harvard Law School.

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

5. Where are the Rosewater Corporation main offices?
(a) Market Street in San Francisco.
(b) Carnaby Street in London.
(c) Fifth Avenue in New York.
(d) Wall Street in New York.

6. What book does Eliot receive from a client of the Rosewater Foundation to whom he gave ten thousand dollars?
(a) A Thousand Clowns.
(b) The Cradle of Erotica.
(c) The Three Faces of Eve.
(d) Get With Child a Mandrake Root.

7. Why does Eliot collect pictures from magazines for his clients?
(a) He finds his clients find pictures comforting.
(b) He is a horder.
(c) He gives them out as birthday gifts.
(d) He uses them for wallpaper.

8. What does Eliot tell Sylvia he wants to do in Rosewater, Indiana?
(a) He wants to revive the old fashioned factories in the town.
(b) He wants to care about the people in the town.
(c) He wants to build a new ansion in the town.
(d) He wants to start a volunteer fire department in the town.

9. In the first sixteen years of the Foundation, how much money is spent?
(a) Fifty million dollars.
(b) Twenty million dollars.
(c) Eighteen million dollars.
(d) Fourteen million dollars.

10. From where is Eliot's first letter to Sylvia written after he leaves New York?
(a) Elsinore, California.
(b) Indianapolis, Indiana.
(c) Princeton, New Jersey.
(d) Houston, Texas.

11. In his first letter to Sylvia, what does Eliot say he has in common with the person he compares himself to ?
(a) They both went mad at an early age.
(b) They both love fire fighters.
(c) They both had wives named Sylvia.
(d) They both have an important mission.

12. What does the black and yellow sticker in the phone booth in Rosewater say?
(a) "Don't Kill Yourself, Lose Weight Easily."
(b) "Don't Kill Yourself, Call Alcoholics Annonymous."
(c) "Don't Kill Yourself, Find Jesus in Your Life."
(d) "Don't Kill Yourself, Call the Rosewater Foundation."

13. Where is Eliot Rosewater educated?
(a) On the East Coast and in Europe.
(b) In the South and in Europe.
(c) In Europe and Hawaii.
(d) On the West Coast and in Japan.

14. What does Eliot do after the war?
(a) He asks his father to manage the Rosewater Foundation.
(b) He finishes law school specializing in international law.
(c) He graduates with a business degree and worked for the Foundation.
(d) He travels around the country with his wife.

15. What is the name of the foundation formed in 1947?
(a) The New York Foundataion.
(b) The Kennedy Foundation.
(c) The Mushari Foundation.
(d) The Rosewater Foundation

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens at the opening of the opera Aida attended by Eliot and Sylvia?

2. What is the original plan for the canal?

3. Who is the creator of the Foundation?

4. What does Eliot use as a kitchen in his office in Rosewater?

5. Who is Arthur Garvey Ulm?

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