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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money per year is the contract Mr. Salter offers William at Boot Magna Hall?
(a) 10,000 pounds.
(b) 2,000 pounds.
(c) 500 pounds.
(d) 32,000 pounds.

2. What regular Ishmaelite practice has kept the country from being colonized?
(a) Ritual suicide.
(b) Witchcraft.
(c) Polygamy.
(d) Cannibalism.

3. To whom is it commonly mistaken, by his family, that William has a romantic attachment?
(a) Miss Caldicote.
(b) Sarah Penning.
(c) Frau Dressler.
(d) Kätchen.

4. From what correspondence school has Bateson graduated?
(a) Highcastle.
(b) Aircastle.
(c) Ellerbe.
(d) Windward.

5. For how long has Frau Dressler lived in Africa?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Thirty years.
(c) Seventeen years.
(d) All her life.

6. What food does Kätchen's husband eat in William's room?
(a) Assorted Ismaelian fruit.
(b) A Christmas dinner.
(c) Half a spiral ham.
(d) Canned yams.

7. Who is the reported leader of the Fascists in Ishmaelia?
(a) Smiles Soum.
(b) Rathbone Jackson.
(c) Gollancz Jackson.
(d) Dr. Benito.

8. Which horse does Priscilla have to take on her evacuation for the sake of Mr. Salter's accommodation?
(a) The mare.
(b) The old mare.
(c) The old bay.
(d) The bay.

9. From what town does Hitchcock reportedly score a scoop on the Fascists in Ishmaelia?
(a) Taku.
(b) Kalimina.
(c) Laku.
(d) Agobe.

10. How far outside of Jacksonburg are Pigge and Corker stuck?
(a) Twelve miles.
(b) Eighty miles.
(c) Eight kilometers.
(d) Thirteen miles.

11. What is the capital city of Ishmaelia?
(a) Jaku.
(b) Aden.
(c) Jacksonville.
(d) Jacksonburg.

12. What is Jack Bannister's long-time nickname?
(a) Poke.
(b) Banny.
(c) Moke.
(d) Flagpole.

13. Who is the director of the Ishmaelite Press Bureau?
(a) Mrs. Earl Russell Jackson.
(b) Erik Olafsen.
(c) Dr. Benito.
(d) Rathbone Jackson.

14. What family holds a dynasty over the Ishmaelian government?
(a) The Jackson family.
(b) The Benito family.
(c) The Boot family.
(d) The Soum family.

15. On William and Corker's train to Ishmaelia, who selfishly occupies one of the four first-class compartments?
(a) William and Corker.
(b) An English diplomat.
(c) A Swiss ticket collector.
(d) Corker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What objects fill the heavy bag belonging to the girl who previously occupied William's room in the Pension Dressler?

2. To where do the Ishmaelian taxi drivers in Jacksonburg take foreigners when the latter cannot be understood?

3. Onto what structure does Mr. Baldwin parachute?

4. In what part of the continent of Africa does Ishmaelia lie?

5. What is Corker's wife's name?

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