2. What does Raymond tell his friend that he believes?
(a) He may have been brainwashed.
(b) Jocie is dead.
(c) He may have killed Jocie and slept with his mother.
(d) Marco killed Jocie and slept with Raymond's mother.

3. Of what is there a history?
(a) Strikes.
(b) Political party conventions.
(c) Election days.
(d) Rallies.

4. In what does Chunjin insist on driving his boss?
(a) A rented limousine.
(b) A hummer.
(c) His car.
(d) A bus.

5. What happens while Raymond's mother is gone?
(a) Shaw drinks his wine and plays solitaire.
(b) Shaw watches television.
(c) Shaw glimpses Jocie through the glass terrace door to the library.
(d) Shaw makes small talk at the party.

6. Meanwhile, at the party, what does Raymond's mother do regarding Raymond?
(a) She is happy to find him missing.
(b) She panics to discover he has left the library.
(c) She interrupts their argument.
(d) She greets him and Jocie as they enter.

7. How does Raymond Shaw dress for the party?
(a) In a Batman costume.
(b) In a flamboyant gaucho outfit.
(c) In a tuxedo.
(d) In his pajamas.

8. Why does Raymond's mother storm out of her brother's home in Italy?
(a) She insists to the press that the embassy is under Communist directive.
(b) She realizes he is trying to murder her.
(c) He kicks her out.
(d) He is not as powerful as she had hoped.

9. What does the colonel reveal that his investigators have learned about Raymond?
(a) He was a sweet, kind man before the war.
(b) He had no sexual history before the war.
(c) He had many lovers before the war.
(d) He remembers killing Bobby and Ed.

10. How does Raymond act when Marco studies him?
(a) As if he was asleep.
(b) Completely normal.
(c) Drunk.
(d) Oblivious to his presence.

11. Who relates that he told an in-law to pass the time playing solitaire?
(a) A guest at Hungarian Charlie's.
(b) One of the FBI agents.
(c) The proprietor at Hungarian Charlie's.
(d) Marco.

12. What is the plan for Raymond?
(a) To kill himself.
(b) To kill his mother and stepfather.
(c) To kill the presidential candidate and wound Iselin, who will be wearing protection that will also make him look as though mortally wounded.
(d) To kill Jocie and her father.

13. What does Raymond begin playing?
(a) Cards.
(b) A video game.
(c) Golf.
(d) A board game.

14. What do the Iselins do to assure Johnny will be nominated vice-president?
(a) Work behind the scenes.
(b) They make empty promises.
(c) They encourage voters to choose him.
(d) They rig the votes.

15. Of what should the reader have a deep sense?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Foreboding.
(c) Love.
(d) Sadness.