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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Eliot's father react when he hears of Eliot's drunken behavior?
(a) He tells Sylvia to take Eliot to Europe for six weeks.
(b) He goes on a tyrade and accuses Eliot of ruining his career.
(c) He demands that Eliot check into a hospital.
(d) He refuses to worry, stating "Eliot's got fiber, he's got spine."

2. What does Senator Rosewater lament when Sylvia arrives in America for the divorce?
(a) The lack of courage Sylvia displays by divorcing his son.
(b) The lack of psychiatric care available to his son.
(c) The lack of an heir for the family fortune.
(d) The lack of support for his senatorial campaign.

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

4. What does the coded shorthand AW mean in Eliot's ledger?
(a) Avacado with a glass of wine.
(b) Asprin with a glass of wine.
(c) Andes Mints with a shot of whiskey.
(d) Asprin and a glass of water.

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

6. What does Eliot use as a kitchen in his office in Rosewater?
(a) His bedroom.
(b) His closet.
(c) His bathroom.
(d) His back porch.

7. In Washington DC, while meeting with McAllister, Musahri, and Sylvia, what does Senator Rosewater wish aloud?
(a) That he could find Eliot another wife quickly.
(b) That he could find a way to discredit his opponent.
(c) That he could have Eliot sent away to another country.
(d) That both he and Eliot were both dead.

8. For what law firm does Norman Mushari work?
(a) Smith, Barney, Cluster.
(b) McAllister, Robjent, Reed, and McGee.
(c) McAllister, Smith, and Wainwright.
(d) Meryll, Lynch, Fenner, and Smith.

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

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

11. Who rented the office space in Rosewater before Eliot did?
(a) A dentist.
(b) A veterinarian.
(c) An architect.
(d) A lawyer.

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

13. To whom does Eliot compare himself in the first letter he sends to Sylvia?
(a) A volunteer fire fighter.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) His father.
(d) Caesar Augustus.

14. 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 woman for her car.
(c) With a police officer for release from jail.
(d) With a homeless man for a bottle of whiskey.

15. What does Eliot tell Sylvia will be his "work of art?"
(a) He is going to open a food kitchen.
(b) He is going to paint a mural on the bank wall.
(c) He is going to love the discarded Americans in the town.
(d) He is going to build an ast museum for the town.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Arthur Garvey Ulm?

2. When Eliot leads his platoon into the smoke-filled building, what happens?

3. At what age can siblings of the president of the Foundation become officers?

4. From where is Eliot's first letter to Sylvia written after he leaves New York?

5. Why does Eliot's psychiatrist tell Sylvia he is resigning from Eliot's case?

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