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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Burnham's son, Christopher, is reading the horoscope from which magazine?
(a) Sports Illustrated.
(b) The Lampoon.
(c) Rolling Stone.
(d) NewsWeek.

2. According to this book, what is the unemployment rate for black males in Washington DC at the time?
(a) Twenty two percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Fifteen percent.
(d) Ten percent.

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

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

5. What is "the boom factor" ?
(a) The cost of materials for an atom bomb.
(b) Something Burnham made up.
(c) The amount of noise an atom bomb makes when it explodes.
(d) A term only people with "Q" status would understand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why will Mr. Joslin not bend the rules for Jerome?

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

3. What does the high school building remind Ivy Peniston of?

4. What is Burnham's astrological sign?

5. Why does Mr. Joslin think that Jerome failed typing?

(see the answer key)

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