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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

7. What has Mr. Pym said he was a collector of that Ivy could get for him in return for his help?
(a) Old Stamps.
(b) Signed baseballs.
(c) Coins.
(d) "People Trivia"

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

9. 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 a mandatory staff meeting was happening that morning.
(c) That the White House had, in fact, bugged his wife's car.
(d) That he was installing a POTUS phone in Burnham's office that day.

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

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

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

13. Why does Pym choose Nebraska as a biographical core for his American identity?
(a) He wasn't familiar with any other states.
(b) The Nebraska accent.
(c) His superiors had instructed him to use Nebraska for this purpose.
(d) Nebraska reminded him of his homeland.

14. Who does the fellow who claimed to have an appointment with the President, take his orders from?
(a) The CIA.
(b) The Soviet Union.
(c) Mr. Pym.
(d) His toaster.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Burnham want Mr. Renfro to explain?

3. Why is Pym giving Ivy the Percodan?

4. Why does Mr. Joslin think Ivy Peniston would want to go back to Bermuda?

5. What does Ivy think that Mr. Pym wants?

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