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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shaw attend?
(a) The dinner O'Neil organizes.
(b) The party for his boss's birthday.
(c) A meeting with his boss and O'Neil.
(d) The holiday office party.

2. What does Shaw think of Marco using words such as "brainwashing?"
(a) He feels guilty.
(b) He becomes angry.
(c) He does not approve.
(d) He is confused.

3. What does Marco do one night?
(a) He wakes up screaming and twisting in the bed.
(b) He does not bring women home.
(c) He moves out.
(d) He throws Raymond out of the apartment.

4. How does Raymond feel about the events surrounding the divorce?
(a) He never stopped loving his parents.
(b) He would forever resent his mother for this scandal.
(c) He would forever resent his father for this scandal.
(d) He would resent both of his parents for this scandal.

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

6. How does Iselin solidify his power in the senate?
(a) By being a strong leader.
(b) By not listening to his wife.
(c) By leading investigative committees and strong-arming opponents with hints of blackmail.
(d) By doing what his voters ask.

7. What is revealed about Shaw?
(a) He is universally liked by his company.
(b) He is the smartest man in his company.
(c) He is universally disliked by his company.
(d) He is the bravest man in his company.

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

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

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

11. What is the cover story for Raymond's visit?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Drug addiction.
(c) His being knocked over by a hit-and-run driver.
(d) Hallucinations.

12. Iselin brings Marco's plan to bring about his own court-martial to the attention of whom?
(a) Lieutenant General Mills.
(b) Lieutenant General Nils Jorgenson.
(c) George Bush.
(d) The President.

13. How does Raymond respond when the doctor asks him who he dislikes least among his company?
(a) He is closest to Marco.
(b) He hates Bobby the most.
(c) He dislikes no one.
(d) He dislikes Ed the least.

14. What has Shaw's mother, the wife of influential senator Johnny Iselin, arranged?
(a) A parade in her son's honor.
(b) An interview with several national newspapers.
(c) A stay in the White House.
(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) A note to Raymond to help him rid himself of his promotions.
(c) An official protest to his various promotions and dissociate himself from Iselin.
(d) A form to be given another promotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Marco traveled to New York to see Raymond, where was Shaw?

2. How does Marco change Shaw's whole world?

3. What happens when Marco sits by a beautiful woman on a train?

4. What favor does Shaw mention to his mother?

5. How does Shaw's mother position herself and her husband, when Shaw is presented the Medal of Honor?

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