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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 does Senator Rosewater lament when Sylvia arrives in America for the divorce?
(a) The lack of courage Sylvia displays by divorcing his son.
(b) The lack of support for his senatorial campaign.
(c) The lack of an heir for the family fortune.
(d) The lack of psychiatric care available to his son.

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

3. What does Eliot do after the war?
(a) He asks his father to manage the Rosewater Foundation.
(b) He finishes law school specializing in international law.
(c) He travels around the country with his wife.
(d) He graduates with a business degree and worked for the Foundation.

4. What meeting does Eliot attend in Milford, Pennsylvania?
(a) A science fiction convention.
(b) A revival.
(c) An AA meeting.
(d) A Foundation meeting.

5. How does Eliot's father react when he hears of Eliot's drunken behavior?
(a) He tells Sylvia to take Eliot to Europe for six weeks.
(b) He refuses to worry, stating "Eliot's got fiber, he's got spine."
(c) He demands that Eliot check into a hospital.
(d) He goes on a tyrade and accuses Eliot of ruining his career.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Eliot's customary gift to newborn children?

2. What is the name of the disease Dr. Brown attributes to Sylvia's nervous condition, and what does it mean?

3. What does Kilgore Trout do for a living?

4. How does Eliot answer the telephone, both day and night, in his office?

5. What does Eliot tell Sylvia about the fire department he has found in Iowa?

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 writes letters to Sylvia during his travels, one from a fire station in New Vienna, Iowa. What does he explain he has suggested to the fire department in that small town? How do they react? How does Sylvia react after receiving the letter?

3. Even though Eliot continues to exhibit signs of alcoholism, emotional distress, and mental illness neither his wife Sylvia nor his father the Senator do anything to help him. What reasons do each of them have for not acting to help Eliot?

4. When he disappears for a week, what does Eliot do? Why does the law firm of McAlister, Robjent, Reed, and McGee hire a detective to find Eliot, and where does he find Eliot?

5. In the back of Eliot's ledger is an unfinished novel he has written. In the novel, Eliot talks about Heaven. How does he describe Heaven and what happens there?

6. Describe Eliot's office in Rosewater. What unique characteristics does the office have? What services does Eliot provide for the people of Rosewater?

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

8. 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?

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

10. Eliot receives a call from Diana Moon Glampers. Who is this woman? Why does she call Eliot in the middle of the night?

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