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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 happens at the opening of the opera Aida attended by Eliot and Sylvia?
(a) Eliot calls out to the singers in the middle of the opera.
(b) Eliot leaps off the balcony into the crowd.
(c) Eliot cries inconsolably at the end of the opera.
(d) Eliot goes to the restroom and does not return.

2. What is the one rule Eliot knows to tell the newborn babies he is to baptize?
(a) "You've got to be kind."
(b) "You've got to be crafty."
(c) "You've got to be careful."
(d) "You've got to be rich."

3. According to the Senator, what is the difference between pornography and art?
(a) Color photography.
(b) Bodily hair.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Personal interpretation.

4. How does Sylvia react to the proposal McAllister makes in the meeting between himself, Sylvia, Mushari, and the Senator?
(a) She asks for time to think.
(b) She immmediately says no.
(c) She immediately says yes.
(d) She leaves the room and returns to Paris.

5. What does Eliot call Sylvia in his letter to her from Iowa?
(a) "The most understanding person in the world."
(b) "The most beauitiful woman a man could ask for."
(c) "The best wife a man could have."
(d) "The most patient woman in the world."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a fly hunt?

2. Where do the upper-management employees of the corporation who run the automated saw mill live?

3. In the first sixteen years of the Foundation, how much money is spent?

4. What does Eliot talk about, to people idling in front of a fire station, that later gets him arrested?

5. When in New Egypt, New Jersey, with whom does Eliot trade his dress suit and for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Eliot Rosewater? What do we learn about him in the first chapter of the novel?

2. In Chapter Three, Eliot begins talking to people in front of a firehouse in Vashti, Texas. What does he identify as the main purpose of the Armed Forces in America?

3. How do Sylvia and Eliot react to the social set of Avondale? With who do they socialize? What happens because of this association?

4. 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?

5. How did the people of Avondale greet Sylvia and Eliot when they move to Rosewater? Why do they treat them this way?

6. 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?

7. Where is Eliot Rosewater born and raised? Where does he attend school? What degree, and with what specialty, does Eliot obtain after WWII?

8. When Eliot finally enters psychoanalysis, what changes does he make? How long is he in treatment? Why does the psychoanalysis end?

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

10. In Chapter 1, we meet Norman Musahri, a lawyer. What else do we learn about Mushari? For whom does he work?

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