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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Fred do with his father's written bequest?
(a) Without reading it, he puts it under his bed.
(b) WIthout reading it, he bruns it.
(c) Without reading it, he stores it atop a jelly cabinet.
(d) Without reading it, he mails it to Eliot.

3. Upon getting home, why does Fred give up his first thought of suicide?
(a) He thinks about his son.
(b) He thinks about his wife getting the insurance money.
(c) He thinks about his father.
(d) He thinks about the scandal.

4. What does Eliot congratulate Charley on winning that Charley had actually won three years before?
(a) The Young Horatio Alger Award for 1962.
(b) The Rosewater High School Top Athlete Award for 1962.
(c) The Rosewater County Athletic Scholarship Award.
(d) The Young Man's Rifle Shoot Award.

5. What does Fred learn about himself and his family while reading the Rosewater Family History?
(a) They are originally from Scotland.
(b) Their family was one of the first in England.
(c) They are carriers of a defective gene.
(d) They are descendent from royalty.

6. What does Fred tell Caroline after learning about the Rosewater family?
(a) They need to hire a lawyer.
(b) They need to find the other Rosewaters.
(c) They both need to be proud of who they are.
(d) They need to tell Franklin.

7. What does Amanita say when Caroline thanks her for the gift at lunch?
(a) "Sweets for the sweet."
(b) "You still owe me twenty dollars."
(c) "It is no more than you deserve."
(d) "It is no problem, my dear."

8. What sign hangs in the window of the local books and magazine store?
(a) Rhode Island Mothers to Save Children From Drunk Drivers.
(b) Rhode Island Mothers to Save Children From AIDS.
(c) Rhode Island Mothers to Save Children From Food Additives.
(d) Rhode Island Mothers to Save Children From Filth.

9. What can Caroline and Amanita look at through opera glasses while dining?
(a) Harry Pena and his sons and their fishing traps.
(b) Small animals walking the piers.
(c) Stewart Buntline sleeping on his yacht.
(d) Lila Buntwater cleaning her boat.

10. What does Kilgore Trout look like to Fred when he sees the man's photo on the back of the book?
(a) An old man with a pot bellly and white hair, a Santa Claus.
(b) An old man with a full grey beard, an aging Jesus.
(c) An old man with a full moustache, an aging Hercule Poirot.
(d) An old man with a full black beard, an aging Jesus.

11. Where is Selena Deal raised?
(a) In a large family in Portsmith.
(b) In Central America.
(c) In an orpanage.
(d) In a small nearby town.

12. What reading material does Eliot choose for his bus trip to Indianapolis?
(a) Kilgore Trout's This Time It Is over.
(b) Kilgore Trout's Pan-Galactic Three Day Pass.
(c) The American Investigator.
(d) Rolling Stone Magazine.

13. How does Eliot describe how he feels to Charley as he leaves for the bus station?
(a) As if a new part of his life is about to begin.
(b) As if a part of him is dying leaving Rosewater.
(c) As if he has lost all of his friends.
(d) As if he knows Sylvia will take him back.

14. Who is Harry Pena?
(a) An ex-insurance salesman who is now a professional fisherman.
(b) An ex-insurance salesman who is now a professional wrestler.
(c) An ex-insurance salesman who now owns a restaurant on a yacht.
(d) An ex-insurance salesman who is now a lawyer.

15. How does Kilgore Trout explain Eliot's devotion to volunteer fire departments?
(a) It is a means of rubbing out guilt for killing firemen.
(b) It is just a fluke of nature, not true insanity.
(c) These fire departments are the essence of selflessness.
(d) It is a waste of time, and should not be continued.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Selena writing a letter while Fred is asleep on his boat?

2. What does Selena notice about the music Mrs. Buntline plays through the house?

3. What news does Senator Rosewater deliver to his son when he comes to visit him?

4. How long does Eliot tell his father he has questioned his own sanity?

5. Who are the men seated across from Eliot at the fountain?

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