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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Caroline and her friend Amanita dine for lunch on the waterfront?
(a) The Weir.
(b) The Bunty.
(c) The Mary.
(d) The Scat.

2. Who is listening on the other end of the telephone to Sylvia and Eliot's conversation?
(a) Norman Mushari.
(b) Rosewater's attorney McAllister.
(c) The FBI.
(d) Senator Rosewater.

3. What is The Click Noyes tells Charley about when Eliot is in the office?
(a) The point in prison when a man has to get out.
(b) The point at which a man begins to die.
(c) THe part of a man's life when he had to be crazy clicks off.
(d) The point when a man has to decide to stay or go.

4. Who is the first person to visit Eliot on the day of his journey to Indianapolis?
(a) Delbert Peach.
(b) Delbert Smith.
(c) Delbert Ironside.
(d) Delbert Post.

5. Who does Lila find asleep on the couch in the study every day when she comes home?
(a) Her father, Stewart Buntline.
(b) Her father, Harry Pena.
(c) Her father, Fred Rosewater.
(d) Her father George Rosewater.

6. What happens between Eliot and his father in Eliot's apartment?
(a) The Senator screams at Eliot and calls the police to arrest him.
(b) The Senator screams at Eliot, and Eliot screams back at him to leave.
(c) The Senator screams at Eliot for dressing so poorly for his flight.
(d) The Senator screams at Eliot about how he has hurt his father and Sylvia.

7. How does Fred Rosewater's father die?
(a) He commits suicide by hanging himself in the basement.
(b) He commits suicide after the stock market crash of 1929.
(c) He commits suicide after his wife leaves him for a younger man.
(d) He commits suicide when he learns he has cancer.

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

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

10. How is Eliot dressed when he wakes and finds himself at the fountain?
(a) In a dress suit.
(b) In tennis clothes.
(c) In golf clothes.
(d) In pajamas.

11. When Stewart was a young man, what did he tell his lawyer he wanted to do with his money?
(a) He wanted to put it all in trust for his wife.
(b) He wanted to invest it all in the stock market.
(c) He wanted to give it all to the United Way.
(d) He wanted to give it all away to the poor.

12. Where was Fred Rosewater while Norman Mushari was wandering around town looking for him?
(a) Asleep on his sailboat.
(b) At the racetrack.
(c) Asleep at his office.
(d) Asleep at home on the couch.

13. What legal representation does Stewart Buntline have?
(a) McNorton, Krandle, and Little.
(b) Rosenson, Richmond, and Smith.
(c) McSorely, Anderson, and Smith.
(d) McAllister, Robjent, Reed, and McGee.

14. As Fred is preparing to hang himself in the basement, who arrives to speak with him?
(a) Harry Pena.
(b) Norman Mushari.
(c) Eliot Rosewater.
(d) Stewart Buntline.

15. What does Kilgore Trout say is the most important lesson Eliot has learned in his time in Rosewater?
(a) "People can use all the uncritical love they can get."
(b) "People can use all the money they can inherit."
(c) "People can spend allthe money they earn."
(d) "People can use all the help they can get."

Short Answer Questions

1. How much is Fred Rosewater worth dead?

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

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

4. Why are Fred's shins bruised and scabbed?

5. What does Fred read with interest in the section of the paper entitled "Here I Am?"

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