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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who greets Shaw at the airport?

2. When Shaw returns to work, from whom does he receive a call, looking for Major Marco?

3. Why does Raymond's mother have no regrets?

4. One day, who arrives at Shaw's office at the newspaper and asks him for a job?

5. What is the American patrol is quickly conditioned to believe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Raymond's mother do when she finds out about her son's relationship with Jocie?

2. How does Raymond's life change when Marco moves in?

3. How does Iselin's story change?

4. When and how does Raymond first meet Jocelyn?

5. Why does Shaw end up in Washington early?

6. What does Marco tell Rosie?

7. Why do others not like Iselin?

8. What does Lieutenant General Nils Jorgenson do when Iselin brings Marco's plan to his attention?

9. What happens when the President gives Shaw his medal?

10. What is known about Shaw from the beginning of this flashback?

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