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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What experience in the past does the Senator blame for Eliot's mental instability?
(a) Eliot's lack of structure at school.
(b) Eliot's attachement to his teachers in grade school.
(c) Eliot's being bullied at a young age.
(d) Eliot's attachment to the volunteer fire department as a child.

3. 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 leaps off the balcony into the crowd.
(d) Eliot goes to the restroom and does not return.

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

5. At the end of WWII, where is Eliot stationed?
(a) Berlin.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Bavaria.

6. What does Eliot seek out in every town he visits?
(a) The volunteer fire departments.
(b) The public libraries.
(c) The mayors.
(d) The railroad stations.

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

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

9. What is the name of the disease Dr. Brown attributes to Sylvia's nervous condition, and what does it mean?
(a) Xenophobia, due to living in Rosewater.
(b) Aniexty disorder, related to her marriage to Eliot.
(c) Samaritrophia, hysterical indifference to the less fortunate.
(d) Shopaholism, related to her need to shop in Paris.

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

11. What does Eliot call Sylvia in his letter to her from Iowa?
(a) "The most beauitiful woman a man could ask for."
(b) "The most understanding person in the world."
(c) "The best wife a man could have."
(d) "The most patient woman in the world."

12. Who is the author of Get With Child a Mandrake Root?
(a) Arthur Miller.
(b) Arthur Garvey Ulm.
(c) Arthur Clark.
(d) Arthur Unto.

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

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

15. What is the one rule Eliot knows to tell the newborn babies he is to baptize?
(a) "You've got to be rich."
(b) "You've got to be kind."
(c) "You've got to be crafty."
(d) "You've got to be careful."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Eliot Rosewater educated?

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

3. Where are the Rosewater Corporation main offices?

4. What is Eliot's title with the fire department in Rosewater when he is a child?

5. What is Eliot's customary gift to newborn children?

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