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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first thing out of Raymond's mouth after his own name?
(a) Who are you?
(b) A marriage proposal.
(c) Where am I?
(d) I love you.

2. Senator John Iselin sneaks into a regularly scheduled press conference given by the Secretary of Defense, and very loudly proclaims what?
(a) He hates the Secretary of Defense.
(b) He is a Communist.
(c) He has a list of two hundred and seven Communists working in the Defense Department.
(d) He wants to be the Secretary of Defense.

3. What favor does Shaw mention to his mother?
(a) He would like Ben Marco to receive a raise.
(b) He would like to see Ben Marco promoted to colonel.
(c) He would like a raise.
(d) He would like to be promoted to colonel.

4. Early the next morning, what interrupts Shaw and the young newspaperwoman in the act of sex?
(a) The telephone ringing.
(b) A crash.
(c) A sharp and insistent knocking on his hotel room door.
(d) A loud scream.

5. Who is O'Neil?
(a) Raymond's boss.
(b) An FBI agent.
(c) An editor.
(d) The paper's promotion manager.

6. Shaw does not recognize this person, but after introductions recalls what about this person?
(a) He was his best friend.
(b) He was his patrol's interpreter.
(c) She was Marco's girlfriend.
(d) She was his first girlfriend.

7. What has the FBI come to do?
(a) Collect Shaw and fly him to Washington ahead of schedule.
(b) Wake Shaw and remind him of his medal ceremony in Washington.
(c) Interrogate Shaw.
(d) Arrest Shaw in Ed Mavole's murder.

8. Who does Shaw's American field handler want Raymond to kill?
(a) Himself.
(b) His boss.
(c) His mother.
(d) Marco.

9. How does Raymond commit this killing?
(a) By strangulation.
(b) With a gun.
(c) With a knife.
(d) With poison.

10. Who is this beautiful woman?
(a) Violet.
(b) Rosie.
(c) Jocie.
(d) Iris.

11. Where does Shaw's mother shove Senator Johnny Iselin, Raymond's hated stepfather, for a photo op?
(a) In the car.
(b) Up the boarding ramp.
(c) On the float.
(d) On the stage.

12. When Shaw returns to work, from whom does he receive a call, looking for Major Marco?
(a) The President.
(b) Rosie.
(c) His mother.
(d) Army Intelligence.

13. What concerns the public?
(a) That Iselin was allowed in the Secretary of Defense's meeting.
(b) That there are no Communists in the Defense Department.
(c) That there are Communists in the Defense Department.
(d) That Iselin cannot keep the number of Communists straight.

14. What does Raymond's mother like about Iselin?
(a) He is wealthier than her first husband.
(b) He loves her.
(c) He is more handsome than her first husband.
(d) He has no scruples.

15. What does Jocelyn do when Raymond has been bitten by a snake?
(a) She sucks out the poison and treats the wound.
(b) She runs for help.
(c) She cries.
(d) She faints.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shaw think of Marco using words such as "brainwashing?"

2. What does Raymond do to O'Neill?

3. Two years later, Raymond receives a phone call asking him to do what?

4. How does Raymond's mother react when he tells her the full story of the major's psychological problems?

5. What does he state will happen if the major continues in his attempt at the court-martial?

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