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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 is the purpose of the Charles Lamb books?
(a) Hawthorne purchased duplicates by accident
(b) good reading
(c) to enlighten Wormold
(d) for communications in code

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

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

4. What task does Wormold refuse to do:
(a) work for Hawthorne
(b) attend the meeting with hawthorne
(c) read Hasselbacher's mail
(d) give up the vacuum cleaner business

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In regards to Hawthorne, Wormold finds that the Consulate:

2. Wormold makes a yearly trip outside of Havana to:

3. What does Wormold find when he returns to his shop?

4. A cable from London tells Wormold:

5. In Santiago, Wormold is:

Short Essay Questions

1. What warning is contained in the cables from London?

2. There is a scene at the Tropicana during Milly's party when a woman squirts Captain Segura with seltzer water. What does Wormold find out from the woman?

3. What word is Mr. Wormold worried about with his vacuum cleaner business?

4. How are Wormold's reports received in London?

5. How does Wormold get the British to pay for his yearly trip to visit retailers?

6. Why is Wormold going through his index card list of agents the next morning?

7. Why is Wormold questioned by the police in Santiago?

8. How does Wormold keep Beatrice from finding his agents?

9. What does Wormold learn about the Englishman who had been in his shop?

10. Wormold sends a list of three names who are his sub-agents. Where does he obtain the names from?

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