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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is "Q" Clearance?
(a) A very high secret clearance authorization.
(b) Permission to write and read important "for your eyes only" memos.
(c) Clearance to be able to ask the President any question about policy.
(d) Access to the President and his staff any time, day or night.

4. How much money per paycheck is Burnham's pay raise worth?
(a) Four hundred and fifty dollars.
(b) One hundred dollars.
(c) Twenty eight dollars and thirteen cents.
(d) Forty eight dollars and seventeen cents.

5. Burnham's wife, Sarah, says that Derry's pubescent radicalism was due to what?
(a) Burnham's decision to work for the President.
(b) A healthy superego.
(c) Her disdain of rock stars.
(d) Sarah's lack of time to spend with Derry.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Burnham want to do with the flame thrower?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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