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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Pym get in to the crowded bar?
(a) He waited until the crowd thinned out.
(b) He pretended to be a police officer.
(c) He bribed the bouncer.
(d) He went in the back door.

2. Whose speech does Burnham hear while at college in 1960?
(a) Fidel Castro.
(b) Mao Tse-tung.
(c) Che Guevera.
(d) McGeorge Bundy.

3. How does the President feel about Epstein?
(a) He relied on his connections to the CIA.
(b) He respected his politcal savvy.
(c) He didn't like him but he needed him.
(d) He needed the votes he could bring in from Louisiana.

4. What does Burnham think Ivy was going to do with the papers in the wastebasket?
(a) Burn them.
(b) Shred them.
(c) Leave them for him to shred later.
(d) Toss them in the trash shoot.

5. What is stapled to the door of Derry's room?
(a) A poster of Carl Marx.
(b) A poster of Arthur Scargill.
(c) A poster of Che Guevera.
(d) A poster of Lenin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Ancient Greek city does Pym compare the bar to?

2. How long has Mr. Pym served as a spy for the Soviets?

3. What threat from his superiors in the Soviet Union prompts Pym to "prowl the perimeters of the White house" ?

4. How much longer is the President for whom Burnham writes speeches going to be in power?

5. What does Burnham find out about the pasha of Banda?

(see the answer key)

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