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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom is Selena writing a letter while Fred is asleep on his boat?
(a) Wilford Maxwell.
(b) Wilford Rosewater.
(c) Wilford Brimley.
(d) Wilfred Parrot.

3. What is one of Eliot's favorite Kilgore Trout books dealing with ingratitude?
(a) The First District Court of Thankyou.
(b) The First Trial of the Ungrateful.
(c) The First District Court of Ingratitude.
(d) The First Design of Helpfulness.

4. What does Fred read with interest in the section of the paper entitled "Here I Am?"
(a) Personal ads.
(b) Employment ads.
(c) Automobile ads.
(d) Housing ads.

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Stewart Buntline make his money?
(a) He inherited forty million dollars in tobacco money.
(b) He inherited ten million dollars of IBM stock.
(c) He inherited eighteen million dollars in tobacco money.
(d) He inherited twenty million dollars in pharmacutical holdings.

11. Who is the thirteen year old girl who comes in while Fred is reading the paper?
(a) Sally Rosewater, Fred's neice.
(b) Lila Buntline, daughter of Fred's wife's best friend.
(c) Kristen Buntline, daughter of Fred's wife's best friend.
(d) Norman Mushari.

12. How much is Fred Rosewater worth dead?
(a) Two hundred thousand dollars.
(b) A million dollars.
(c) Forty-two thousand dollars.
(d) Fifty thousand dollars.

13. Why does Eliot not recognize Kilgore Trout when he sees him sitting on the bench at the fountain?
(a) He has no beard.
(b) He is wearing a suit.
(c) He has dyed his hair.
(d) He has lost a lot of weight.

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

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 a waste of time, and should not be continued.
(c) These fire departments are the essence of selflessness.
(d) It is just a fluke of nature, not true insanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Harry Pena?

2. How does Senator Rosewater arrive at Eliot's apartment?

3. How much time has passed since Eliot left Rosewater and the meeting at the fountain?

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

5. While the Senator is talking with Eliot in his apartment, what occurs?

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