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

2. Once again, what does the author go to great lengths to establish?
(a) A scene.
(b) Raymond's character.
(c) Mrs. Iselin's character.
(d) Johhny's character.

3. Who does Raymond's mother believe he should attempt to marry?
(a) Rosie.
(b) A senator.
(c) Jocie.
(d) Her.

4. Where is the reader then taken?
(a) The strike itself.
(b) The rally itself.
(c) The convention itself.
(d) The election day itself.

5. Meanwhile, what does Senator Jordan express for his colleague Johnny Iselin?
(a) Understanding.
(b) His disdain.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Uncertainty.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Marco?

2. As the presidential candidate reaches the point in his speech that will cue the gunshots, the FBI agents realize what?

3. Why does Raymond wonder if this will be construed as indelicate?

4. What does Raymond's column report?

5. What does Raymond's mother ask Jocie's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place when Marco and the G-men meet Raymond in Hungarian Charlie's?

2. What takes place at their rendezvous?

3. How does the book end?

4. How does Shaw feel about what he has heard from Marco and the G-men?

5. What is the assassination plot arranged for Raymond?

6. What has happened to Marco?

7. What does Marco have Rosie do?

8. What do Raymond and Jocie do?

9. How does the scene begin, prior to the shooting?

10. What does Mrs. Iselin do on her European trip?

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