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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 names has Mary Moody chose for her twins?
(a) Foxcroft and Melody.
(b) Frederick and Marsha.
(c) Foxworth and Melanie.
(d) Franklin and Josephine.

2. Who is Arthur Garvey Ulm?
(a) A distant family relative with whome Eliot corresponds.
(b) A writer Eliot meets and to whom he gives ten thousand dollars.
(c) An attorney who is interested in hiring Eliot after the war.
(d) A soldier Eliot befirends in the Army.

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

4. What does the coded shorthand AW mean in Eliot's ledger?
(a) Asprin and a glass of water.
(b) Andes Mints with a shot of whiskey.
(c) Avacado with a glass of wine.
(d) Asprin with a glass of wine.

5. From what law school did Norman Mushari graduate?
(a) Yale Law School.
(b) Cornell Law School.
(c) Harvard Law School.
(d) Tulane Law School.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eliot seek out in every town he visits?

2. From where is Eliot's first letter to Sylvia written after he leaves New York?

3. During the meeting with Sylvia, how does Senator Rosewater react when McAllister reminds him about the other Rosewater?

4. What is Eliot's title with the fire department in Rosewater when he is a child?

5. How does Eliot meet Sylvia?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. Who is Arthur Garvey Ulm? What part does he play in the story of Eliot and Sylvia's life?

4. Sylvia tells Eliot's father the story of how she and Eliot met. What is the story she tells?

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. 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?

8. Who is Kilgore Trout? What one of his books does Mushari find to read and where?

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

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

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