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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?
(a) To hide the fact he was upset about his personal problems.
(b) To hum along to the tunes playing on the Mess sound system.
(c) To block out the conversation at the next table.
(d) Humming was a constant activity for him.

5. What do members of the White House staff think about being assigned to the E.O.B. ?
(a) It was exile.
(b) It was to close to the Vice Presidental Offices.
(c) It had a great cafeteria.
(d) It was a great promotion.

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

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

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

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

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

11. Who does Ivy think Eva was?
(a) Pym's wife.
(b) Pym's girlfreind.
(c) Pym's secretary.
(d) Pym's daughter.

12. How does Eva know so much about vitamins?
(a) She studied nutrition in school.
(b) She helped her father with his vitamins.
(c) She took a lot of vitamins herself.
(d) From one of her Greenpeace colleagues.

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

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

15. Why is Burnham getting "Q" Clearance?
(a) The President awards it to his favorite staff members.
(b) He has worked for the department for nine years and it is automatic at that point.
(c) He needs it in order to continue working as writer for the President.
(d) He has applied for it in order to advance his career.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who's personal chef has Dickinson been?

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

4. Who does the fellow who claimed to have an appointment with the President, take his orders from?

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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