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

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

3. How does Marco change Shaw's whole world?
(a) By paying all of Shaw's rent.
(b) By providing free, ready women every night for both of them.
(c) By showing Raymond the love he has never known.
(d) By cooking all the meals in the apartment.

4. What do Raymond and Jocie begin?
(a) A romance.
(b) A friendship.
(c) A disagreement.
(d) A fling.

5. What happens when Raymond's mother finds out about Raymond and Jocie?
(a) She tells Raymond that Jocie is gay.
(b) She forces Raymond to leave with her.
(c) She sabotages the couple by telling Jocie's father that Raymond is gay.
(d) She makes Raymond apologize to Jocie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has a local reporter come by to interview Shaw?

2. What does Marco do upon returning from Korea?

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

4. What does Shaw attend?

5. Where does Shaw's mother shove Senator Johnny Iselin, Raymond's hated stepfather, for a photo op?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Marco and Chunjin get into a fight?

3. What does Raymond tell his mother about Marco? How does she react?

4. How does the chapter begin?

5. What does Raymond do when O'Neil insists on throwing a welcome dinner for the Medal of Honor veteran?

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

7. What happens to Marco one night?

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

9. Why does Shaw end up in Washington early?

10. What does Jorgenson do after this meeting with Marco?

(see the answer keys)

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