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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result of Raymond's column?
(a) It is not published.
(b) It is the most poorly-written article in the history of the paper.
(c) It is ignored by many.
(d) It is the paper's most reprinted syndicated feature.

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

3. How did most people react to Raymond?
(a) In such a way to support his belief that he was invisible.
(b) With surprise.
(c) In such a way that showed how much others respected him.
(d) With kind words.

4. How does Raymond's mother get him to agree to meet her for lunch the next day?
(a) She misses him.
(b) She blackmails him.
(c) She tells him she wants to congratulate him on his marriage.
(d) She offers her son a "leaked" story for the press.

5. How many shots do they hear?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

6. What does Raymond's mother give him?
(a) A note.
(b) A letter.
(c) A hug.
(d) Another assignment.

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

8. Before the tape cuts out, what does Marco tell Raymond to do?
(a) Unprogram himself.
(b) Continue with his original plan.
(c) Scrap the whole plot and listen to his new orders.
(d) Save himself.

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

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

11. What had Mrs. Iselin ordered the Chinese to create?
(a) A militia.
(b) A fake birth certificate for Raymond.
(c) An assassin.
(d) A Communist organization in the U.S.

12. What do Raymond and Ben Marco exchange?
(a) Recipes.
(b) Birthday gifts.
(c) Phone numbers.
(d) Christmas gifts.

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

14. How does Marco shock Raymond?
(a) When Marco tells him he will program him to kill.
(b) When Marco tells him he killed Lembeck and Mavole.
(c) When Marco tells him that he will go to prison.
(d) When Marco tells him that Jocie is dead.

15. What will Senator Iselin then do?
(a) Die a hero with his wife by his side.
(b) Hunt for Raymond's murderer.
(c) Tell the world that Jocie and her father were Communists.
(d) Strike a heroic pose and carry the dead candidate in his arms.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Marco?

2. Through further laboratory testing, what do intelligence agencies sort out as Raymond's trigger?

3. What will soon happen?

4. Meanwhile, what is Raymond's American field handler doing?

5. Does Shaw believe Marco?

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