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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Burnham decide to take the bus to work instead of a cab?
(a) He enjoyed the people he met on the bus.
(b) He was running too late to walk.
(c) The light changed.
(d) The couple asleep in the car had frightened him.

2. Why does Ivy Peniston argue that Jerome could graduate despite failing typing?
(a) He is going to cause trouble when he can't graduate with his class.
(b) She wants him out of the house as soon as possible.
(c) He has good grades otherwise.
(d) She feels embarrassed to tell her neighbors that he is not graduating.

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

4. What does Pym promise to give Ivy before she leaves?
(a) A bottle of sherry.
(b) More pills.
(c) Money.
(d) A phone number to call about getting a forged high school diploma.

5. Why does Pym choose Nebraska as a biographical core for his American identity?
(a) He wasn't familiar with any other states.
(b) His superiors had instructed him to use Nebraska for this purpose.
(c) The Nebraska accent.
(d) Nebraska reminded him of his homeland.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Pym blush when Eva asks why he is interested in the prescription?

4. Why does Sergeant T have Burnham halt at the guard house?

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

(see the answer key)

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