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

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

3. When Sylvia asks Eliot where he is calling from, how does he reply?
(a) "From a drab little American anywhere."
(b) "From nowhere you can understand."
(c) "From a phonebooth in the midwest."
(d) "From a railroad station up east."

4. In his first letter to Sylvia, what does Eliot say he has in common with the person he compares himself to ?
(a) They both had wives named Sylvia.
(b) They both love fire fighters.
(c) They both went mad at an early age.
(d) They both have an important mission.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens at the opening of the opera Aida attended by Eliot and Sylvia?

2. How does Eliot's father react when he hears of Eliot's drunken behavior?

3. What does Eliot call Sylvia in his letter to her from Iowa?

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

5. What does Eliot use as a kitchen in his office in Rosewater?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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?

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

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