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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 day of the week does Hugh have a special class that Harry attends?
(a) Thursdays.
(b) Wednesdays.
(c) Fridays.
(d) Mondays.

2. In Omega VII, what does Harry take with him into the woods?
(a) His father's picture.
(b) His father's bow.
(c) His father's pocket knife.
(d) His father's gun.

3. Why can't the body in Omega VIII be positively identified as Hugh's?
(a) It's too badly burned.
(b) It's been too cut up.
(c) There are no teeth.
(d) There is no head.

4. In Part 1, Chapter 5, what does Kittredge talk to Harry about as they go for a walk alone?
(a) The duality of people's psyches into Alpha and Omega.
(b) Her theory on evolution.
(c) Her real feelings about Hugh.
(d) How she feels about Harry.

5. Who does Harry believed killed Hugh?
(a) Arnie Rosen.
(b) Augustus Farr.
(c) Dix Butler.
(d) Kittredge.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Harry's leg broken when he was younger?

2. Kittredge has a strong reaction to Harry's letter about the prostitute and the philosophy of Alpha and Omega. What is her reaction?

3. What does Harry learn that Kittredge's father liked to sleep with?

4. What does Harry write about in his first letter to Kittredge?

5. In Omega I, what two ghosts does Harry say haunt the island?

Short Essay Questions

1. During Harry's first days in Berlin, what things are illuminated?

2. How is Harry's life dominated by strong male figures?

3. In Omega I through Omega VII, Harry spends a lot of time discussing his childhood and background. How are these connections important to him?

4. How do Hugh's claim that the agency functions as "soldiers of God" fall in line with Harry's ideas?

5. What happens when Dix and Harry go out for a drink with Freddie McCann and his wife Bunny?

6. How does Harry begin to fall even more in line with the accepted social mores of his country and era in Part III, Chapters 1 - 7?

7. Harvey gives Harry two tapes to record the conversation with Gehlen. Besides taping Gehlen, what does Harry do with the other tape?

8. How do all the different names represented by cryptograms reinforce the concept of Alpha and Omega?

9. How is Kittredge's theory of Alpha and Omega represented in Harry in Part IV, Chapters 7 - 13?

10. How does Kittredge describe people's psyches as Alpha and Omega?

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