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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What experience in the past does the Senator blame for Eliot's mental instability?
(a) Eliot's lack of structure at school.
(b) Eliot's attachement to his teachers in grade school.
(c) Eliot's attachment to the volunteer fire department as a child.
(d) Eliot's being bullied at a young age.

2. When Eliot calls Sylvia from Indiana, what does he say is the one remaining independent business in the town?
(a) F.W. Woolworth's.
(b) NIght-crawlers.
(c) Roman taffy factory.
(d) Carp bones.

3. During a thunderstorm, who calls and wakes Eliot from his sleep?
(a) Diana Moon Glampers.
(b) Diana Mars Johnson.
(c) Diana Star Wakefield.
(d) Diana Sun Farber.

4. When Sylvia and Eliot move to Rosewater, what is to the west of the Parthenon?
(a) The Rosewater Saw Company.
(b) The night crawler stands.
(c) The old railway terminal.
(d) The Rosewater Savings and Loan.

5. In what town is Eliot arrested after leaving New York?
(a) Phoenix, Arizona
(b) Vashti, Texas
(c) Austin, Texas
(d) Elisnore, California

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eliot do after the war?

2. Who is referred to as "The Nut," "The Saint," and "The Holy Roller?"

3. To whom does Eliot compare himself in the first letter he sends to Sylvia?

4. When Sylvia asks Eliot where he is calling from, how does he reply?

5. What is a fly hunt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eliot's letter to his heir reveal about his parents?

2. What is the tone of the letter written by Eliot to his heir about the family history? How can you tell?

3. What does the law firm McAllister, Robjent, Reed, and McGee do for the Rosewater Foundation? What does Mushari learn while rifling through confidential files? What plan does he hatch based on his findings?

4. While at the science fiction convention in Milford, what does Eliot encourage the writers to write about? How does he explain his idea? What does he do to prove his point?

5. Mushari finds a sealed letter from Eliot Rosewater to be given to his heir upon Eliot's death. What does Mushari do with the letter? What does he learn about Eliot? What is his next step?

6. On the same day of calls from a suicidal man and Stelle Wakeby, Eliot receives a call from his father and does not recognize his father's voice. What are some of the things Senator Rosewater wants to talk to his son about, and how does the conversation end?

7. Eliot keeps a ledger in his office in which he keeps important information about his work. What does he call his ledger, and what kinds of things are in it? What is an example of something Eliot would have in his ledger?

8. Who is listening on the other end of the conversation between Eliot and Sylvia? What does the person learn from the conversation to aid in the case to have Eliot declared insane?

9. What is Eliot's connection with the Rosewater Fire Department? What is his rank within the department and why?

10. Eliot lives in his office. Describe the conditions in which Eliot lives. What are his surrounding like? Does he have many visitors? Does he leave the office regularly? What are some of the unusual qualities of the office?

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