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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the old man Richard and Leslie meet on the mountainside?
(a) Thomas Marshall.
(b) Anthony Robbins.
(c) Jean-Paul Le Clerc.
(d) Daniel Lichtenstein.

2. What color sport coat is the younger Richard wearing in the hotel when Richard talks with him?
(a) Green.
(b) Brown.
(c) Camel-colored.
(d) Black.

3. What does Tatiana say when the sirens go off?
(a) Volcano eruption!
(b) Earthquake!
(c) Americans!
(d) Russians!

4. What form does Pye take in Chapter 7 when Leslie asks her what "higher perception" they could have chosen?
(a) Blue-white star.
(b) Ghost.
(c) Bird.
(d) Flower.

5. What did Leslie give up as a young woman?
(a) Music.
(b) Dating older men.
(c) Playing sports.
(d) Sweets.

6. How do Leslie and Richard feel without Pye in the seaplane?
(a) Happy.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Sleepy.
(d) Relaxed.

7. Where do Richard and Leslie land in Chapter 11?
(a) India.
(b) Moscow.
(c) France.
(d) Belgium.

8. At the beginning of the novel, where do Richard and Leslie plan to meet scientific researchers?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) San Diego.
(c) Spring Hill.
(d) Palm Springs.

9. What is Leslie's maiden name?
(a) Parrish.
(b) Jones.
(c) Smith.
(d) Fields.

10. What is the tent made of that Richard and Leslie see when they land in a desert?
(a) Bark.
(b) Plastic.
(c) Leather and cloth.
(d) Tree limbs and pine branches.

11. What did the dog Richard had as a child like to eat?
(a) Carrots.
(b) Tuna fish.
(c) Ham.
(d) Apricots.

12. What kind of radio-controlled bird models are in the younger Richard's hotel room?
(a) Hawks.
(b) Pelicans.
(c) Robins.
(d) Seagulls.

13. What does the young Leslie's family think of her as stated in Chapter 6?
(a) That she's stubborn and strange.
(b) She is an excellent singer.
(c) She doesn't work hard enough.
(d) She is special and needs all their support.

14. How does Richard describe Leslie's hair at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Reddish brown.
(b) Red.
(c) Golden.
(d) Black as night.

15. What is "Growly"?
(a) Richard's nickname.
(b) Leslie's nickname.
(c) Name of Richard's seaplane.
(d) Pilot identification name.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tink?

2. What are the men wearing who are guarding the tent in the desert?

3. Why does Attila kill his guard?

4. How do the couple that Leslie and Richard meet in Chapter 11 know they are Americans?

5. What does young Richard say he likes about flying fighter planes?

(see the answer keys)

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