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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money per paycheck is Burnham's pay raise worth?
(a) Twenty eight dollars and thirteen cents.
(b) One hundred dollars.
(c) Forty eight dollars and seventeen cents.
(d) Four hundred and fifty dollars.

2. What are Burnham's parting words to Epstein as he is leaving the Mess?
(a) "Where did you get your suit?"
(b) "It is an honor to meet you"
(c) "What time is our meeting this morning?"
(d) "What about you? Do you work here?"

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

4. 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.

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

6. When he meets him at the Mess, what does Cobb have to tell Burnham about?
(a) The President requested him to write a toast speech for a dinner.
(b) That the White House had, in fact, bugged his wife's car.
(c) That a mandatory staff meeting was happening that morning.
(d) That he was installing a POTUS phone in Burnham's office that day.

7. Why dos Eva record the taxi's license number?
(a) She wanted to impress her father.
(b) She liked the driver.
(c) She was exercising her memory.
(d) She thought the driver might rob Ivy.

8. 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.

9. How does Ivy know she has "struck the mother lode" when she enters the office?
(a) She can tell by the room number.
(b) Signed photos of the President and Burnham are on the wall.
(c) She sees the shredder.
(d) She sees a POTUS phone.

10. Burnham's son, Christopher, is reading the horoscope from which magazine?
(a) Sports Illustrated.
(b) Rolling Stone.
(c) NewsWeek.
(d) The Lampoon.

11. Why will Mr. Joslin not bend the rules for Jerome?
(a) He is afraid he will be caught.
(b) He enjoys being cruel to single mothers.
(c) He dosn't like Jerome.
(d) He believes it would be unfair.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "the boom factor" ?

2. Who's personal chef has Dickinson been?

3. What city does Pinsky jump ship in?

4. After he confronts Epstein in the Mess, why does Burnham feel terrific?

5. How does the President feel about Epstein?

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