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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the staff at the Secret Service commented that the sketches:
(a) a missile
(b) a new airplane
(c) reminded him of a giant vacuum cleaner
(d) a new bomb

2. Which of the following does Hawthorne not considered a necessity for Wormold's office:
(a) radio
(b) a gun
(c) combination-safe
(d) trained staff

3. What does the Chief want?
(a) photographs of the machinery
(b) updated information
(c) a meeting with Wormold
(d) documentation

4. As the blind Negro walks, he:
(a) looks around
(b) counts the number of steps
(c) greets people
(d) sings

5. When Wormold receives fifteen hundred dollars for the bogus flight of the Cuban pilot, he plans to use the money:
(a) to buy a new car
(b) to move to bigger parties
(c) to flee on
(d) to send Milly to a Swiss finishing school

6. When Wormold is in Santa Cruz:
(a) he recruits an agent
(b) he sells a vacuum cleaner
(c) he buys a diamond necklace for Milly
(d) his car breaks down

7. What is one of the first things that Beatrice did:
(a) read through Wormold's cables
(b) questioned Wormold about his contacts
(c) purchased a large combination safe
(d) cleaned the office

8. While they have a discussion at their table, a woman at the next table:
(a) slaps her escort
(b) faints
(c) begins to shout
(d) squirts Captain Segura with seltzer water

9. Hasselbacher had received a phone call:
(a) threatening him
(b) advising him to leave Cuba
(c) warning him
(d) asking if his sympathies were with the East or West

10. How does Wormold know which page, line and word of the book to use to decode the message?
(a) it was prearranged with Hawthorne
(b) from the four digit number at the beginning of the message
(c) the Consulate staff must tell him
(d) he must guess

11. What does Wormold find that Beatrice wants him to do:
(a) intoduce her to his agents
(b) move to a bigger office
(c) move to a house
(d) give up the vacuum cleaner business

12. When Wormold goes to the Consulate to pick-up a cable, he learns that:
(a) they want him to talk with the security staff
(b) they don't want to know anything about his activities
(c) they want to question him
(d) they are waiting for a full report

13. What does Wormold find when he returns to his shop?
(a) the door locked
(b) a man asking questions about vacuum cleaners
(c) Lopez gone
(d) Milly behind thecounter

14. In regards to Hawthorne, Wormold decides that he should:
(a) pay back the money
(b) send some names for them to trace and recruit an agent
(c) resign
(d) find someone to help him

15. Wormold writes his sister that the vacuum cleaners aren't selling well because of:
(a) the market is glutted
(b) high prices
(c) power outages
(d) high unemployment

Short Answer Questions

1. Wormold tells Milly that he is beginning a new career as:

2. What does the Englishman reply when Wormold asks if he has decided on a vacuum cleaner?

3. Why does Wormold at first say no to Milly's request for a horse?

4. Who joins their table at the outing for Milly?

5. Regarding his trip, Wormold tells Hawthorne that the purpose is to:

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