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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. Where does Eliiot Rosewater meet his wife?
(a) In London.
(b) In Rome.
(c) In New York.
(d) In Paris.

2. What happens to Sylvia after five years of living with Eliot in Rosewater?
(a) She travels to New York to shop and does not return.
(b) She holds parties for the society set in Avondale.
(c) She has a nervous breakdown and burns down the firehouse.
(d) She becomes pregnant.

3. Why does Eliot's psychiatrist tell Sylvia he is resigning from Eliot's case?
(a) Because Eliot refuses to attend therapy sessions.
(b) Because Eliot has not spoken in a year.
(c) Because Eliot has a "most massively defended neurosis."
(d) Because Eliot has refused to pay for his treatment.

4. When does Eliot Rosewater leave law school and why?
(a) In 1941, to join the Marines.
(b) In 1941, to avoid the draft.
(c) In 1941, to join the Army.
(d) In 1941, to join the Navy.

5. Where is Eliot Rosewater born and when?
(a) Rosewater, Illinois, in 1920.
(b) New York City, in 1920.
(c) Rosewater, Indiana, in 1918.
(d) Washington DC, in 1918.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the black and yellow sticker in the phone booth in Rosewater say?

3. What is the name of the foundation formed in 1947?

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

5. For what law firm does Norman Mushari work?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. While they are talking, Sylvia reveals things about Eliot that the Senator has not known. What is one of the things Sylvia tells him?

5. What disease does Dr. Brown diagnose Sylvia with having? How does he explain this disease? Is it curable?

6. Where does Eliot end up after his roaming around America? What does he tell Sylvia he plans to do there, and how?

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

9. Eliot had an experience in WWII that changed his life forever. What was that experience, and how does it affect his life after he leaves the service?

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

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