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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is next in line after Rosewater's son to become president of the Foundation?

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

3. Who is Mushari's favorite law professor in school?

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

5. What is the name of Eliot's ledger?

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

3. 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?

4. In Washington, D.C. the Senator, Sylvia, McAllister, and Mushari are meeting to discuss Eliot. What idea do they come up with while discussing the problem of Eliot's behavior and his current situation in Rosewater? How does Sylvia defend Eliot's behavior?

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. What is Eliot's connection with the Rosewater Fire Department? What is his rank within the department and why?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is "The Click" Noyes Finnerty talks about to Charley Warmergram? Explain the theory of The Click. What "click" has Eliot experienced? How does it change him?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Senator Rosewater's speech on the Golden Age of Rome. Why does he make the speech? What is his comparison between America at the time and the period before the Golden Age of Rome? Is this a reasonable comparison? How does he propose to repair American society?

Essay Topic 3

McAllister tells Stewart Buntline "giving away a fortune is a futile and destructive thing." Stewart Buntline chooses not to give his fortune away; Eliot Rosewater takes another course. Compare and contrast these two men, their backgrounds and their adult lives.

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