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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 news does Senator Rosewater deliver to his son when he comes to visit him?
(a) Mushari is going to try and prove him insane.
(b) His visit with Sylvia has been cancelled.
(c) McAllister wants him to leave the country.
(d) He is no longer head of the Foundation.

2. How does Stewart Buntline make his money?
(a) He inherited forty million dollars in tobacco money.
(b) He inherited ten million dollars of IBM stock.
(c) He inherited twenty million dollars in pharmacutical holdings.
(d) He inherited eighteen million dollars in tobacco money.

3. To whom is Selena writing a letter while Fred is asleep on his boat?
(a) Wilfred Parrot.
(b) Wilford Rosewater.
(c) Wilford Brimley.
(d) Wilford Maxwell.

4. Who does Lila find asleep on the couch in the study every day when she comes home?
(a) Her father George Rosewater.
(b) Her father, Harry Pena.
(c) Her father, Fred Rosewater.
(d) Her father, Stewart Buntline.

5. How much does Bunny say the gift Amanita gives Caroline at lunch cost?
(a) Seventeen dollars.
(b) Thirteen dollars.
(c) Twenty dollars.
(d) One hundred dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reading material does Eliot choose for his bus trip to Indianapolis?

2. Who is Sergeant Boyle?

3. What book does Eliot have hidden in his office?

4. How many women in Rosewater County claim to have birthed Eliot's child?

5. How does Eliot describe how he feels to Charley as he leaves for the bus station?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Norman Mushari has driven around Pisquontuit looking for Fred to no avail, how does he spend the rest of his afternoon?

2. In the end, Eliot outsmarts Mushari and others who think he is idealistic and insane. How does he do this?

3. Describe Caroline Rosewater's luncheon experience at the Weir. How is she treated? How does she feel?

4. How do the Buntlines have a servant, Selena, living in their home? How does Selena feel about living with the Buntlines?

5. Amid one person after another coming up to him and saying goodbye and good luck, all people he seems not to know, Eliot goes to the magazine rack and chooses something to read on his trip to Indianapolis. What does he choose, and what is it about?

6. During his father's visit, Eliot takes a call from someone in the town. What do the two of them discuss while his father is there listening?

7. Harry Pena and his sons are on a fishing boat which is visible from the dining room of The Weir. What do customers see from the vantage point of their windows? What does Harry do about this situation?

8. What does Noyes Finnerty tell Charley Warmergram has happened to Eliot?

9. When Fred comes home, what happens that makes him think of suicide? What keeps him from killing himself?

10. While he is at the news store counter having coffee and Danish with the carpenters and plumbers of the town, Fred tells a story that ends with someone saying to him "God bless you, Mr. Rosewater." Why does the person say this?

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