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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What kind of information will Burnham have access to with "Q" status?
(a) Atomic energy documents.
(b) The President's agenda
(c) Personel files.
(d) Classified computer disks containing information from the CIA.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is stapled to the door of Derry's room?

2. Where does Ivy Peniston get the idea that Jerome could cheat on his typing test?

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

4. How much money per paycheck is Burnham's pay raise worth?

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

(see the answer key)

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