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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the President ask Burnham at the Cabinet meeting?

2. Who does Teal name that Pym actually had information on?

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

4. What does Burnham sense he needed to do immediately after Eva told him she was a spy?

5. Who answers the phone when Burnham called the President?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Burnham feeling proud after the President's speech on the Honduras situation?

5. What does Eva think of Burnham?

6. Describe Burnham's opinion on the Invasion of the Honduras.

7. What does Dyanna find out at lunch with Connie and Dolores?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eva knows a great deal about nutrition. How is she using her knowledge to influence Burnham?

1) How is she controlling what he eats?

2) In your opinion, does she show interest in his consumption out of affection, or is she just doing her job?

3) Which do you think is having more of an effect on Burnham,:the food or the sex? Explain, using three examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Does the President have any strong political beliefs?

1) How do these beliefs get expressed in the plot?

2) How does Burnham influence the President? Cite 3 examples from the text.

3) Why do you think the President wants Burnham's advice?

Essay Topic 3

When Burnham understands that the ship in the harbor in Havana was the Bilitis, he asks for an hour to get the situation under control.

1) How does he know he can handle this situation?

2) What do you think his motivations are? Does this have anything to do with wanting to defy Epstein?

3) What, in your opinion, is the significance of Toddy being a transsexual?

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