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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city does Pinsky jump ship in?
(a) Halifax, Nova Scotia.
(b) Washington, DC
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Boston, MA.

2. Why was Eva in Jail?
(a) For plotting to blow up the Glen Canyon Dam.
(b) For being the daugher of a Soviet spy.
(c) For not paying her taxes.
(d) For being the daughter of a Nazi.

3. Why does Mr. Joslin think Ivy Peniston would want to go back to Bermuda?
(a) He believes all immigrants should return to their land of origin.
(b) The climate and the flowers.
(c) So she could find a new husband.
(d) Because Jerome failed typing.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Fydor Michaelovitch Pinsky's prized commodity in the Soviet Union during the war?

3. What has Mr. Pym done for Ivy in the past?

4. What is Burnham working on as the story opens?

5. What is "the boom factor" ?

(see the answer key)

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