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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. How does Pym get in to the crowded bar?
(a) He pretended to be a police officer.
(b) He waited until the crowd thinned out.
(c) He went in the back door.
(d) He bribed the bouncer.

2. What does Pym imagine Teal was arranging for him?
(a) To meet another contact.
(b) To be hit by a Taxi.
(c) To get a substantial cash payment.
(d) To get a one way ticket to Russia.

3. What does Burnham sense he needed to do immediately after Eva told him she was a spy?
(a) Warn the President.
(b) Leave her.
(c) Get Angry.
(d) Turn her in.

4. At the news conference, where does the President say that you have to keep a secret?
(a) Between you and God.
(b) At the bottom of your sock drawer.
(c) With your mother.
(d) In your head.

5. Who does Burnham want to call after he found his new office?
(a) Eva.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Derry.
(d) Christopher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Burnham meditating on when Dyanna asked to speak with him?

2. What does Eva say about Burnham being in love with her?

3. When he leaves the basement of the "Y", where does Burnham go?

4. What is the last item on the table from the envelope Teal had sent to Pym?

5. What Tom Sawyer character does Dyanna's new behavior remind Burnham of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eva think of Burnham?

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

3. What is Burnham's ironic thought about Sarah after he solves the crisis with Toddy?

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

5. What does Eva learn about herself after Louise's arrest with Mengele?

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

7. Considering the development of Burnham's relationship to the President throughout the book, how has Burnham influenced American Foreign Policy?

8. Who is the first person Burnham wants to call from his new office?

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

10. How does Pym know that Teal appreciates the information he has given him?

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