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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Mr. Pym served as a spy for the Soviets?
(a) Almost ten years.
(b) Almost forty years.
(c) Almost twenty five years.
(d) Almost fifty years.

2. What does Ivy bring Mr Pym?
(a) Phone numbers.
(b) Photo copies of Burnham's calendar.
(c) Shredded papers, a pay envelope and a prescription.
(d) The President's next speech.

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

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

5. What is Burnham's astrological sign?
(a) Taurus.
(b) Libra.
(c) Leo.
(d) Capricorn.

6. How long has it been since Burnham had a drink?
(a) Six months.
(b) One month.
(c) One year.
(d) Two years.

7. Who can call on a POTUS phone?
(a) The President of The United States.
(b) The Washington DC police.
(c) The Soviet Ambassador.
(d) The CIA.

8. Although he is actually a speech writer for the President of the U.S.A, who does Timothy Burnham "officially" work for?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The Department of Energy.
(c) The Central Intelligence Agency.
(d) The American Broadcasting System.

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

10. How long has Burnham been married to Sarah?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Eighteen years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Twenty five years.

11. What does Ivy think that Mr. Pym wants?
(a) He wants classified information from a person with "Q" status.
(b) He wants to help her and Jerome.
(c) He wants "dirt "on people in order to help his business grow.
(d) He wants memorabilia from the White House.

12. What is Mr Renfro's last comment to Burnham?
(a) "I do hope you learn to take it seriously."
(b) "You could appeal to the President to have you transferred."
(c) "I'm afraid, Mr Burnham, that you have no choice but to....grow up."
(d) "Its only fair to tell you, you worry me."

13. 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) Because Jerome failed typing.
(c) So she could find a new husband.
(d) The climate and the flowers.

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

15. According to this book, what is the unemployment rate for black males in Washington DC at the time?
(a) Fifty percent.
(b) Fifteen percent.
(c) Twenty two percent.
(d) Ten percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eva know so much about vitamins?

2. Burnham believes he is allergic to what?

3. What is Fydor Michaelovitch Pinsky's prized commodity in the Soviet Union during the war?

4. Why does Mr. Joslin think that Jerome failed typing?

5. What is "Q" Clearance?

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