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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Burnham think about contact from the President?
(a) He looks forward to the assignments.
(b) No news is good news.
(c) He is anxious to be closer to the President.
(d) He really wants a POTUS phone.

2. What city does Pinsky jump ship in?
(a) Boston, MA.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Halifax, Nova Scotia.
(d) Washington, DC

3. How does Pym get custody of Eva?
(a) He wins custody in divorce court.
(b) He buys her.
(c) Louises father insisits that he take Eva.
(d) Louise is sent to jail because she is a Nazi.

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

5. Who's personal chef has Dickinson been?
(a) Franklin Roosevelt's.
(b) Joseph Stalin's.
(c) Heinrich Himmler's.
(d) Adolf Hitler's.

6. 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.

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

8. What is removed from the basement of the West wing in order to make space for Warner Cobb's office?
(a) Two stalls from the ladies room.
(b) A secretary's office.
(c) A waiting room.
(d) A wall seperating the hallway from a closet.

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

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

11. 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.

12. How does Sarah demonstrate that she is serious about one of them leaving?
(a) She dressed in a tweed suit.
(b) She packed one suitcase for him and one suitcase for her.
(c) She offers to leave if he can take care of the children.
(d) She insists he resign from his job.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ivy Peniston believe Mr. Joslin should bend the rules for Jerome?

2. What is "the boom factor" ?

3. What does Mr. Renfro bring to Burnham's office?

4. What is Mr Renfro's last comment to Burnham?

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

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