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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Wormold and Hasselbacher do every morning?

2. What does Milly want as a birthday present?

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

4. Dr. Hasselbacher and Mr. Wormold are talking in:

5. For Milly's seventeenth birthday, Wormold takes Milly and Hasselbacher to the:

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Wormold lose Hasselbacher to keep his appointment with Hawthorne?

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

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

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

5. What does Wormold do in response to his anger over what was done to Hasselbacher?

6. How does Hawthorne present Wormold to his Chief in London?

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

8. Why does Hawthorne agree to have the Secret Service pay for Wormold's Country Club membership?

9. When Wormold learns that Milly wants a horse for her birthday, what two facts does he find disturbing?

10. Why does Wormold tell Hasselbacher that he was given money to provide information?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does the book have a happy ending? Yes or no? Explain your position. How else could it have ended? Is the ending realistic from your point of view? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Wormold used Segura's gun to kill Carter. When Segura gave Wormold a going away gift of a miniature whiskey bottle and a bullet, what was he telling Wormold? Do you think he was telling Wormold not to return to Cuba?

Essay Topic 3

Did Captain Segura really want to marry Milly? Yes or no? Was he using Milly to reach Wormold? Segura didn't seem very interested in talking to Milly at the airport. How does this affect your view?

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