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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Eliott hear and feel as he stops at the high school?
(a) The sound of the hardware tapping the holow pole, and he feels sad.
(b) The sound of the hardware tapping the hollow pole, and he is glad he is leaving.
(c) The sound of the wind in the trees, and he feels lonely.
(d) The sound of the flag hitting the pole, and he feels grateful.

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

4. What does Fred tell Caroline is above the door of the National Archives in Washington?
(a) "The past is over."
(b) "The past is meaningless without the future."
(c) "The past is prologue."
(d) "The past is the ticket to the future."

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

6. How does Eliot Rosewater outsmart Norman Mushari in the end?
(a) Eliot writes Fred a check for a million dollars and buys him off.
(b) Eliot write Mushari a check for a million dollars to drop the case.
(c) Eliot declares all children of Rosewater are his own, and pays out child support.
(d) He gives Fred one hudnred thousand dollars, and declares all children of Rosewater his children.

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 box of Christmas decorations.
(c) The filled laundry basket.
(d) The basket filled with wood.

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

9. What does Delbert tell Eliot he is thinking about Eliot's trip to Indianapolis?
(a) Once gone, Eliot will not return.
(b) Once gone, Eliot will not remember Rosewater.
(c) Once gone, Eliot will turn right around and come back.
(d) Once gone, Eliot will regret leaving.

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

11. 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.

12. Why did Caroline marry Fred?
(a) If he lived in Pisquontuit and went to Harvard, he must be rich.
(b) If he sold his boat, he would be rich.
(c) If he sold insurance, he would be rich someday.
(d) If he changed careers, he could be a millionaire.

13. What do men Fred insures believe is their only get-rich scheme?
(a) To insure their wives and hope they die first.
(b) To insure their homes and set them on fire.
(c) To insure their businesses then go bankrupt.
(d) To insure themselves and die young.

14. Who are the men seated across from Eliot at the fountain?
(a) Dr. Brown, Thurmond McAllister, Robert McGee, and an unknown man.
(b) The Senator, Dr. Brown, Thurmond McAllister, and an unknown man.
(c) HIs father, his uncle, Dr. Brown, and a stranger.
(d) Dr. Brown, Thurmond McAllister, Norman Mushari, and a stranger.

15. How much does Bunny say the gift Amanita gives Caroline at lunch cost?
(a) One hundred dollars.
(b) Thirteen dollars.
(c) Seventeen dollars.
(d) Twenty dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eliot do for Noyes Finnerty while he is in prison?

2. What does Fred do with his father's written bequest?

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

4. Who is Charley Warmergram?

5. How does Eliot react to the scene in his apartment between himself and his father?

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