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

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

3. What experience in the past does the Senator blame for Eliot's mental instability?

4. Why does Eliot's psychiatrist tell Sylvia he is resigning from Eliot's case?

5. Whose poem did Eliot paint on the risers leading up to his office?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

4. Who is Kilgore Trout? What one of his books does Mushari find to read and where?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. Who is Arthur Garvey Ulm? What part does he play in the story of Eliot and Sylvia's life?

8. 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?

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

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

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

In the letter Eliot writes to be given to his heir, he expresses strong feelings about government in America, about the Utopia the Founding Fathers hoped to create, and what has gone wrong. What are his opinions? How does he feel about having such a large amount of money?

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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