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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eliot do for Noyes Finnerty while he is in prison?
(a) Eliot has Noyes arrested for assault.
(b) Eliot has Noyes paroled.
(c) Eliot gives Noyes his ticket to INdianapolis.
(d) Eliot gives Noyes ten thousand dollars.

2. Who is Tawny Wainwright?
(a) A woman who the Foundation has helped with gifts of food.
(b) A young girl who works at the Kandy Kitchen.
(c) A young girl whose medical care the Foundation was paying.
(d) A woman who asked the Foundation for a new telephone.

3. What paper does Fred read surreptitiously with his coffee and Danish?
(a) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) The American Investigator.
(c) The American Questioner.
(d) The National Enquirer.

4. What has Eliot purchased for his trip to Indianapolis?
(a) A new suit, shirt, tie, socks, underpants, tooth brush, and Lavoris.
(b) A new suit, socks, shoes, toothbrush, and Listerine.
(c) A new suit, socks, shirt, and tie.
(d) A new suit, a briefcase, shoes, toothbrush, and Lavoris.

5. How does Senator Rosewater arrive at Eliot's apartment?
(a) He drove himself.
(b) In a cab.
(c) With Norman Mushari.
(d) In a chauffeur driven car.

6. What happens when Fred continues to read about the Rosewater family in the family history?
(a) He finds the termites have eaten all the rest of the story.
(b) He finds the Rosewaters were criminals.
(c) He finds he has inherited money from his father.
(d) He finds he is not who he thinks he is.

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

8. How does Eliot react to the scene in his apartment between himself and his father?
(a) Eliot takes another shower and gets ready to leave for Indianapolis.
(b) Eliot suddenly freezes and does not answer his telephone.
(c) Eliot begins crying and cannot stop.
(d) Eliot ties his shoe laces and calls a cab to the airport.

9. What does Eliot tell Sylvia he will buy for their meeting?
(a) A haircut.
(b) A pair of new shoes.
(c) A new suit.
(d) A new car.

10. What man assumes the pseudonym of John Rosewater?
(a) John Campbell.
(b) John Argyll.
(c) John Richmond.
(d) John Graham.

11. Who is Sergeant Boyle?
(a) A character in a novel who is from the Milky Way.
(b) A sergeant in the Army who sits next to Eliot on the bus.
(c) A character in an article whose head is bitten off by a bear.
(d) A character in a story who has discovered Big Foot.

12. Who approaches Eliot as he boards the bus?
(a) Senator Rosewater.
(b) Diana Moon Glampers.
(c) Tawny Wainwright.
(d) Arthur Ulm.

13. Where has Sylvia gone, according to The Investigator?
(a) To the mountains of India to study.
(b) To a nunnery with a vow of silence.
(c) To Paris to live.
(d) To a resort in Cannes.

14. What piece of literature had Stewart's attorney included in his last letter to him?
(a) "A Rift Between Friends in the War of Ideas."
(b) "A Treatise on the Science of Eternal Life."
(c) "A Treatise on the Worthiness of Free Enterprise."
(d) "A Rift in the Fabric of the Country."

15. What did Fred's father write and leave to him before dying?
(a) A will.
(b) A note of apology to the family.
(c) A family history.
(d) A suicide letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kilgore Trout explain Eliot's devotion to volunteer fire departments?

2. How is Fred Rosewater related to Eliot?

3. Where was Fred Rosewater while Norman Mushari was wandering around town looking for him?

4. What does Caroline Rosewater ask her husband for when while Fred and Harry Pena are talking?

5. Upon getting home, why does Fred give up his first thought of suicide?

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