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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Light Colonel Clip Dixon done to get demoted?
(a) His flights were consistantly behind schedule.
(b) He had almost crashed Air Force One.
(c) He had repeated something the President had said to him in private.
(d) He had shown up for work drunk.

2. What does Burnham say to Sarah about his reason for writing for the President?
(a) That he agrees with the President.
(b) That he does it for the money.
(c) He does it for the power.
(d) He couldn't get another job.

3. What is "Q" Clearance?
(a) A very high secret clearance authorization.
(b) Permission to write and read important "for your eyes only" memos.
(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.

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

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

6. Why is Mr. Pym interested in Ivy?
(a) She seems like she needs help and he likes to help people.
(b) She works in the White House complex.
(c) He would like to date her.
(d) She is a good cook.

7. How does Ivy get a closer look at Burnham's calendar?
(a) She knocked it off the desk.
(b) She took the calendar out into the corridor.
(c) She put on her reading glasses.
(d) She photocopied the calendar.

8. Why does Mr. Joslin think that Jerome failed typing?
(a) He believes typing is an extremely difficult class.
(b) He believes Jerome lacks discipline.
(c) He knows there are not enough typewriters available to students.
(d) He thinks boys just can't type.

9. What does Mr. Renfro bring to Burnham's office?
(a) A document shredder.
(b) Burnham's new pass for his "Q" clearance.
(c) A POTUS phone.
(d) Orders for a new office.

10. 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.

11. Who does Burnham praise in the speech he wrote for the President?
(a) The pasha of Banda.
(b) Banda's recent peacefuland democratic elections.
(c) The President's policies in Banda.
(d) The people of Banda.

12. What does Burnham want Mr. Renfro to explain?
(a) The make up of a neutron bomb.
(b) When he can move into his new office.
(c) Who he can talk to concerning atomic energy documents.
(d) When his next raise is.

13. Where does Ivy Peniston get the idea that Jerome could cheat on his typing test?
(a) She read about it in the newspaper.
(b) Jerome had mentioned it to her.
(c) The typing teacher was a close freind of hers.
(d) From a boy on the steps of the school.

14. What sort of whale oil is an effective lubricant for the trigger devices of a hydrogen bomb?
(a) Blue whale oil.
(b) Killer whale oil.
(c) Sperm whale oil.
(d) Orcha whale oil.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The first morning after Sarah kicked him out and he is having coffee in the Mess, why is Burnham humming when Cobb showed up at his table?

2. What is removed from the basement of the West wing in order to make space for Warner Cobb's office?

3. Who does Ivy think Eva was?

4. What is "the boom factor" ?

5. What has Mr. Pym said he was a collector of that Ivy could get for him in return for his help?

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