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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Chief tell Hawthorne to look into arranging for Wormold?
(a) a newoffice
(b) a loan
(c) a new car
(d) a Spanish speaking secretary

2. What is Mr. Wormold's occupation?
(a) ship's captain
(b) bar owner
(c) consular official
(d) vacuum cleaner salesman

3. What name does Wormold mention when the police question him?
(a) Captain Segura
(b) Milly
(c) Lopez
(d) Hawthorne

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

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

6. Why does the Englishman run the water in the Gents?
(a) to see if it is clean
(b) to wash his hands
(c) so he doesn't have to listen to Wormold
(d) to confuse a mike

7. Wormold writes to his sister and sends his nephew:
(a) Cuban stamp
(b) pesos
(c) miniature whiskey bottles
(d) lottery tickets

8. Which of the following is not a part of Wormold's daydream?
(a) bearer-bonds
(b) Milly safely married
(c) a steady flow of dividends
(d) retiring to England with Milly

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

10. The Englishman, whose name is Hawthorne, wants to:
(a) go to lunch
(b) close Wormold's vacuum cleaner business
(c) send Wormold home to England
(d) recruit Wormold to work in an intelligence network

11. Why does Wormold at first say no to Milly's request for a horse?
(a) she is too young
(b) he can't afford it
(c) it is out of character for Milly
(d) horseback riding is too dangerous

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

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

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

15. Why does the Chief question the reports sent by Wormold?
(a) he wants documentation
(b) he says the information doesn't sound correct
(c) the Secret Service is not interested in the drawings
(d) the Americans haven't mentioned anything to theBritish

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of the Charles Lamb books?

2. When Wormold asks Lopez if he wants to earn a little extra money, Lopez thinks:

3. In a cable to Hawthorne, Wormold tells of:

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

5. How does Wormold know which page, line and word of the book to use to decode the message?

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