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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 Senator Jordan further state?
(a) He is not feeling well.
(b) He will be Iselin's right hand man in his run for office.
(c) He will instigate impeachment proceedings against Iselin if his name is brought forward for the vice-presidency at the party's convention.
(d) He has not seen her husband this evening.

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

3. What do the Soviets do when word of the wedding reaches them?
(a) They tell Raymond's mother.
(b) They meet with the Chinese.
(c) They tell Raymond's mother to murder him.
(d) They plot to destroy Raymond.

4. What do Raymond and Jocie do?
(a) Sneak out of the party and immediately leave town to get married.
(b) They argue.
(c) They plot his next murder.
(d) They enter the party.

5. What does Raymond begin to remember?
(a) All of his murders.
(b) Being brainwashed.
(c) His first relationship with Jocie.
(d) The murders in Korea.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Raymond act when Marco studies him?

2. How does Marco shock Raymond?

3. The next day, in the Iselin home, Johnny Iselin makes a statement that the assassination confirms what?

4. What do the rapid transitions from one aspect of the show to another portray?

5. Who celebrate a rare moment alone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the assassination plot arranged for Raymond?

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

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

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 does the book end?

6. What do Raymond and Jocie do?

7. To where is the reader taken?

8. How is a meeting arranged between Marco and Raymond?

9. What takes place at their rendezvous?

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

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