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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The toaster and the coffee maker in the kitchen are from which foreign countries?
(a) Japan and Germany.
(b) Mexico and Canada.
(c) China and the Phillipines.
(d) Thailand and Denmark.

2. Why is Burnham getting "Q" Clearance?
(a) The President awards it to his favorite staff members.
(b) He has applied for it in order to advance his career.
(c) He needs it in order to continue working as writer for the President.
(d) He has worked for the department for nine years and it is automatic at that point.

3. What does the high school building remind Ivy Peniston of?
(a) The buildings on a Navy base.
(b) An asylum for the criminally insane.
(c) The hospital where she gave birth to Jerome.
(d) Her own school building back in Bermuda.

4. What sort of whale oil is an effective lubricant for the trigger devices of a hydrogen bomb?
(a) Sperm whale oil.
(b) Blue whale oil.
(c) Killer whale oil.
(d) Orcha whale oil.

5. Why does Ivy Peniston believe Mr. Joslin should bend the rules for Jerome?
(a) She is offering Mr. Joslin money for the favor.
(b) She will go to the press with the story if he will not help her.
(c) She knows Mr. Joslin bends the rules all the time.
(d) Because he is the kind of person America should want to help.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of information will Burnham have access to with "Q" status?

2. What is Mr Renfro's last comment to Burnham?

3. Burnham's wife, Sarah, says that Derry's pubescent radicalism was due to what?

4. According to this book, what is the unemployment rate for black males in Washington DC at the time?

5. Although he is actually a speech writer for the President of the U.S.A, who does Timothy Burnham "officially" work for?

(see the answer key)

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