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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Pym say to Ivy that makes her think he could help her?
(a) "Let me know if I can help you with anything".
(b) "Sometimes you have to bend the rules to survive".
(c) "I can forge anything".
(d) "Free enterprise means you are free to help yourself...".

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

3. What happens when Burnham drops his Pass?
(a) Seargant T laughs at him.
(b) He rips his pants.
(c) An alarm goes off in the guard house.
(d) The person behind him picks it up.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why is Burnham getting "Q" Clearance?

4. What are Burnham's parting words to Epstein as he is leaving the Mess?

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

(see the answer key)

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