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

2. Who is Mushari's favorite law professor in school?
(a) Leonard Cohen.
(b) Archibald Creech.
(c) Simon Smith.
(d) Leonard Leech.

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 graduates with a business degree and worked for the Foundation.
(d) He travels around the country with his wife.

4. At the end of WWII, where is Eliot stationed?
(a) Berlin.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Bavaria.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who put in the canal bisecting the county of Rosewater?

2. What meeting does Eliot attend in Milford, Pennsylvania?

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

4. Why is Norman Mushari happy to hear Eliot is baptizing babies?

5. What stipulation of the charter of the Foundation does Mushari take interest in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Eliot lives in his office. Describe the conditions in which Eliot lives. What are his surrounding like? Does he have many visitors? Does he leave the office regularly? What are some of the unusual qualities of the office?

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

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

6. 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?

7. What does Eliot's letter to his heir reveal about his parents?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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