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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Raymond refer to each event in sequence?
(a) In the past tense.
(b) In the future tense.
(c) In the conditional tense.
(d) In the present tense.

3. When does Johnny begin to struggle?
(a) During a meeting with the President.
(b) During one drunken speech before the Senate.
(c) His wife tells him to admit to being a Communist.
(d) He cannot remember what his wife has told him to say.

4. How does Raymond's mother react when he tells her the full story of the major's psychological problems?
(a) She is surprised.
(b) She is horrified.
(c) She is anxious.
(d) She is upset.

5. Why can Rosie and Marco now be together?
(a)
(b) She is moving to New York.
(c) She is now in love with him.
(d) She has broken up with her fiance.

6. Why does the doctor say Raymond would be the perfect assassin?
(a) He would be accepted everywhere due to his political questions and is susceptible to mental conditioning, because he lacks emotional connections to other people.
(b) He is already an assassin and would only need to build a new allegiance.
(c) He is good with weaponry and is already a spy for the Chinese.
(d) He has many friends who would be willing to trust him.

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

8. The next day, what does the FBI do to Marco?
(a) They blackmail him.
(b) They torture him.
(c) They imprison him.
(d) They grill him.

9. What does Marco ask Rosie?
(a) To run away with him.
(b) To leave him alone.
(c) To marrry him.
(d) To find someone else.

10. Why does Raymond like his boss?
(a) He enjoys to go out and meet new people.
(b) He is kind and pays Raymond well.
(c) He is the opposite of Raymond.
(d) Neither enjoys the art of conversation, so neither makes unwanted social demands on the other.

11. Does Raymond want to hire this person?
(a) No.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) A little.

12. What does the man do who forced Marco to sign the paper?
(a) He takes Marco home.
(b) He commits suicide.
(c) He pays well for his services.
(d) He quits his job.

13. When the newspapers print the photographs the next day, what is revealed about a banner saying, "JOHNNY ISELIN'S BOY?"
(a) It was in front of the President's face.
(b) It blocked Shaw from the picture.
(c) It was hanging over the President's dog's head.
(d) This banner actually floated over the president himself.

14. What has Shaw's mother, the wife of influential senator Johnny Iselin, arranged?
(a) A stay in the White House.
(b) An interview with several national newspapers.
(c) A parade in her son's honor.
(d) A dinner with the President.

15. What does Colonel Marco gains the opportunity to submit?
(a) A letter to the President, thanking him for his promotions.
(b) An official protest to his various promotions and dissociate himself from Iselin.
(c) A form to be given another promotion.
(d) A note to Raymond to help him rid himself of his promotions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the senator tell Jocie about Raymond?

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

4. What does Marco do upon returning from Korea?

5. For what was the sanitarium built?

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