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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 spend allthe money they earn."
(c) "People can use all the money they can inherit."
(d) "People can use all the help they can get."

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

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

5. What book does Fred find while looking through a books and magazine store?
(a) Kilgore Trout's book 2BRO2B.
(b) Kilgore Trout's book The Way Station.
(c) Kilgore Trout's book Pan-Galactic Three Day Pass.
(d) Kilgore Trout's book Venus on the Half Shell.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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 knows Sylvia will take him back.
(d) As if he has lost all of his friends.

12. How much time has passed since Eliot left Rosewater and the meeting at the fountain?
(a) One month.
(b) One week.
(c) One year.
(d) One day.

13. What is written on the fountain in Dr. Brown's private hospital?
(a) "Pretend to be good always, and even God will be fooled."
(b) "Pretend to know the answer even when there is no answer."
(c) "Pretend you are not more than you are, and the Gods will be happy."
(d) "Pretend to be good always, and you will be a fool."

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

15. What does Stewart's attorney tell him about his plan to spend his fortune?
(a) "Money makes its own money."
(b) "Money buys you time."
(c) "Money is dehydrated Utopia."
(d) "Money is hard to earn and hard to keep."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Delbert tell Eliot he is thinking about Eliot's trip to Indianapolis?

2. What do Harry and his sons trap in their fishing nets while Amanita and Caroline have lunch?

3. As Fred is preparing to hang himself in the basement, who arrives to speak with him?

4. Who does Lila find asleep on the couch in the study every day when she comes home?

5. What does Caroline leave out in the house that Fred compares to a pet anteater who sleeps in doorways?

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