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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of meeting does Pym meet Louise at?
(a) International Workers Party.
(b) American Nazi Party.
(c) A Union Organizational Meeting.
(d) A catering convention.

2. How many of the President's writers work for the White House?
(a) None, technically.
(b) Only the Chief Writer.
(c) Only the top five staff writers.
(d) Only the staff reporting writers worked for the White House.

3. Why does Pym blush when Eva asks why he is interested in the prescription?
(a) He is embarrased to have Ivy in the house.
(b) He has had to much sherry.
(c) He has just spilled sherry while filling up Eva's glass.
(d) He is lying to Eva.

4. 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.

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

6. What is stapled to the door of Derry's room?
(a) A poster of Che Guevera.
(b) A poster of Carl Marx.
(c) A poster of Lenin.
(d) A poster of Arthur Scargill.

7. Why is Pym giving Ivy the Percodan?
(a) She can sell them for extra cash.
(b) To relieve her pain.
(c) To get her hooked.
(d) His insurance covers pain killers.

8. Why does Pym want to go for a walk with Eva?
(a) For the exercise.
(b) He wanted to buy some cigarettes.
(c) To tell her he was a Soviet spy.
(d) To make sure Ivy's cab went the right direction.

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

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

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

12. What is Pinsky terrified of in Annapolis?
(a) Soft shell crabs.
(b) Being uncovered as a spy.
(c) Not having enough money.
(d) Americans.

13. Who does the fellow who claimed to have an appointment with the President, take his orders from?
(a) His toaster.
(b) Mr. Pym.
(c) The Soviet Union.
(d) The CIA.

14. Who are the two people Ivy sees in the corridor?
(a) Cobbs and Seargant T.
(b) Renfro and Burnham.
(c) Burnham and Dyanna.
(d) Epstein and Witt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who can call on a POTUS phone?

2. What does Mr. Pym say to Ivy that makes her think he could help her?

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

4. What does Burnham find out about the pasha of Banda?

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

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