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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Burnham describe the task he is working on as the story begins?
(a) It is an easy task that he hopes to finish quickly.
(b) It is a struggle between Church and State.
(c) It is going to be a masterpiece when he is finished.
(d) It is a waste of his time and talent.

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

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

4. How does Pym get custody of Eva?
(a) He buys her.
(b) He wins custody in divorce court.
(c) Louise is sent to jail because she is a Nazi.
(d) Louises father insisits that he take Eva.

5. What has Mr. Pym done for Ivy in the past?
(a) Given her and Jerome extra work from time to time.
(b) He had gotten Ivy a United States Passport.
(c) Taken care of a customs problem in Bermuda.
(d) Loaned Ivy his car.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What makes Burnham decide to take the bus to work instead of a cab?

(see the answer key)

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