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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 is the operation Avalanche that Harry oversees in Uruguay?
(a) A group of seven teenagers who deface Catholic posters and put up Communist propaganda.
(b) A group of seven teenagers who deface Communist posters and put up Catholic propaganda.
(c) A group of seven teenagers who deface Lutheran posters and put up Cathloic propaganda.
(d) A group of seven teenagers who deface Communist posters and put up Jewish propaganda.

2. What did Harry's father want Hugh to be for Harry?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His best friend.
(c) His godfather.
(d) His mentor.

3. Where does Harry's father take him on his fifteenth birthday?
(a) 31.
(b) 41.
(c) 21.
(d) 51.

4. Kittredge has a strong reaction to Harry's letter about the prostitute and the philosophy of Alpha and Omega. What is her reaction?
(a) She vows revenge, and tells him to stop seeing the prostitute.
(b) Annoyance and an unfinished anecdote.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Joy about his understanding of the philosophy.

5. What does Hugh keep changing in Part II, Chapter 4 that he finds very funny?
(a) Harry's cryptogram.
(b) Harry's mission.
(c) Harry's living space.
(d) Harry's codename.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Harry's case officer who is also a strong anti-communist?

2. What does Harvey tell Harry after he listens to the tape from Harry's interview in Part II, Chapter 13?

3. In Part II, Chapter 14, whose letters discuss some of the TSS projects, including an experiment with LSD?

4. What is Kittredge studying in the TSS?

5. How was Kittredge's first husband paralyzed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kittredge get into experimenting with LSD?

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

3. What experience does Harry share that has to do with God and lust?

4. What are the three different versions of the CIA man that are presented in Omega VII - Omega XII of "Harlot's Ghost"?

5. What information does Harry give about his estate, The Keep, in Omega I?

6. What does Harry's mistress, Chloe, call to tell him after Kittredge locks herself in her bedroom?

7. What does Harry read from Rosen's confidential letter to Dix in Part II, Chapter 14?

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

9. How is the growing difference between who Harry is as a CIA agent and whom he feels like enumerated in Part II, Chapters 1 - 4?

10. How has Harry become more of a man in Part II, Chapters 5 - 10?

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