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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 Charlie recount telling his brother-in-law to do?
(a) Take a cab to the Brooklyn Bridge and jump in the water.
(b) Take a cab to Central Park and jump in the water.
(c) To take a hike.
(d) To kill himself.

2. What does the inebriated Mrs. Iselin proceed to do?
(a) Give Raymond poisoned wine.
(b) Rape her mind-controlled son.
(c) Hug Raymond.
(d) Tell Raymond how much she cares for him.

3. What does Raymond's column report?
(a) On his mother's poor behavior.
(b) On the people he kills on the trip.
(c) On the movements of his mother.
(d) On the culture and climate of Europe while neglecting entirely the Iselins.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Soviets do when word of the wedding reaches them?

2. As she is speaking, what does Raymond's mother realize about him?

3. Before the tape cuts out, what does Marco tell Raymond to do?

4. What does she reveal about Raymond?

5. Meanwhile, what does Senator Jordan express for his colleague Johnny Iselin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place during the first days of the ceremonies?

2. What has taken place between Raymond and Jocie's father?

3. What is Raymond's costume? What does he think about it?

4. How does Raymond react when his mother schemes to announce Jocie's return to the United States through the Society pages of Raymond's own paper, without informing her son of the development? How does she respond to him?

5. How is Shaw's assassin mind-set triggered?

6. What has happened to Marco?

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

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

9. How does the book end?

10. What takes place at their rendezvous?

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