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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A Frenchman at the airport is angry because of the ________ on Starbuck's suit.
(a) Red ribbon.
(b) Name tag.
(c) Patch.
(d) Dirt.

2. What did Starbuck become involved with because of Sarah?
(a) Music.
(b) The Communist Party.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Crime.

3. What did Hapgood do for Sacco and Vanzetti?
(a) Post bail.
(b) Protest.
(c) Send food.
(d) Defend in court.

4. Starbuck is released from prison in _____.
(a) 1979.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1977.

5. Walter Starbuck is an ex-con, ex-capitalist, and ex-_________.
(a) Writer.
(b) Husband.
(c) Student.
(d) Socialist.

6. What prompts Starbuck to remember Sarah Wyatt?
(a) The streets at night.
(b) Taking the limo.
(c) Staying in New York.
(d) A woman in the lobby.

7. Starbuck is narrating from _______ after his release.
(a) Three years.
(b) A decade.
(c) Two days.
(d) A year.

8. Starbuck says he became involved in Watergate ________.
(a) Strategically.
(b) Intentionally.
(c) Peripherally.
(d) Innocently.

9. Larkin teases Starbuck about his lack of what?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Courage.
(c) Money.
(d) Friends.

10. What does Starbuck say to defend himself to Sarah?
(a) He does everything out of love.
(b) They people deserved what they got.
(c) His actions were an accident.
(d) She didn't understand the situation.

11. At the beginning of the prologue, "Kilgore Trout is ________."
(a) Missing.
(b) Amazing.
(c) Dead.
(d) Back again.

12. When Starbuck met Ruth, what was she?
(a) A war veteran.
(b) A former model.
(c) A concentration camp refugee.
(d) A waitress.

13. Who leaves the limo?
(a) An old friend of Starbuck's.
(b) A child.
(c) A famous prisoner.
(d) A famous actress.

14. In New York, Starbuck stays at the "once ________ Hotel Arapahoe."
(a) Small.
(b) Run-down.
(c) Bankrupt.
(d) Fashionable.

15. Why was Starbuck impacted by the Cuyahoga Massacre?
(a) McCone was impacted by it.
(b) His father was involved.
(c) It set the tone for his life.
(d) He lost money on a bet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hapgood go to college?

2. McCone's father was a ______.

3. What was Starbuck's relationship with Nixon?

4. Vonnegut describes Hapgood as a _______ figure.

5. Looking in the mirror in his new suit, Starbuck observes that he looks _____.

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