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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Pym say to Ivy that makes her think he could help her?
(a) "I can forge anything".
(b) "Let me know if I can help you with anything".
(c) "Sometimes you have to bend the rules to survive".
(d) "Free enterprise means you are free to help yourself...".

2. What makes Burnham decide to take the bus to work instead of a cab?
(a) The couple asleep in the car had frightened him.
(b) He was running too late to walk.
(c) The light changed.
(d) He enjoyed the people he met on the bus.

3. Who does Sarah work for?
(a) Dick Cavett.
(b) Department of Justice.
(c) Ted Kennedy.
(d) Warren Beatty.

4. Why does Mr. Joslin think Ivy Peniston would want to go back to Bermuda?
(a) He believes all immigrants should return to their land of origin.
(b) The climate and the flowers.
(c) So she could find a new husband.
(d) Because Jerome failed typing.

5. What is removed from the basement of the West wing in order to make space for Warner Cobb's office?
(a) Two stalls from the ladies room.
(b) A secretary's office.
(c) A wall seperating the hallway from a closet.
(d) A waiting room.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose speech does Burnham hear while at college in 1960?

3. What sort of whale oil is an effective lubricant for the trigger devices of a hydrogen bomb?

4. What is "the boom factor" ?

5. Why does Ivy Peniston believe Mr. Joslin should bend the rules for Jerome?

(see the answer key)

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