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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gift has the President offered Burnham?
(a) An apartment in Washington.
(b) A new car.
(c) The chance to write the President's Memoirs.
(d) His own toilet.

2. What is the first sign that Burnham's office had been moved?
(a) The door is locked.
(b) The guard at the the gate redirected him to the West Wing.
(c) The brass nameplate holder was empty.
(d) A painting crew is there when he arrived.

3. What does the President ask Burnham at the Cabinet meeting?
(a) If he needed a ride home.
(b) What he thought about what was being reported.
(c) If he wanted a Fresca.
(d) What Eva was doing that night.

4. After the President finishes his statement on the Honduras, what makes Burnham feel so proud?
(a) He has received a large cash payment for his work.
(b) Eva has decided to marry him.
(c) His children and wife has issued statements of support for him.
(d) The President has said exactly what Burnham had urged him to.

5. How does Burnham know Toddy Thatcher?
(a) He is Sarah's cousin.
(b) He doesn't say.
(c) He went to college with him.
(d) He plays squash with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What college is the President's nephew applying for?

2. When, according to the President, did the soviets call ABC?

3. Who does Burnham want to call after he found his new office?

4. How does Burnham get the door off the locked closet in Epstein's office?

5. What question does Epstein have for Burnham after the President leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why will Burnham not turn Eva in after she confessed she was a spy?

2. What is Pym relieved about when he called Teal?

3. What was in the courier bag from Teal that alarmed Pym?

4. How does the President explain Burnham to the press?

5. How does Burnham's distraction with his personal life work to Ivy's advantage?

6. What occurs in Chapter 8 that lets us know that Burnham is definitely "in" with the President?

7. How does Eva use her knowledge of Burnham's health issues to her advantage?

8. Is it surprising that the couple in the car Burnham saw on his way into the apartment turn out to be working for Epstein?

9. Describe Burnham's feelings when the President informs him he is to write his memoirs.

10. How does Ivy come to be on the evening news?

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