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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. To what does "unnatural" correspond in the telegram William receives at Aden?
(a) Expenses.
(b) Universal News.
(c) Ishmaelia.
(d) Sea travel.

2. Who is the highest paid journalist in America, about whom Corker tells William a story?
(a) Jocelyn Hitchcock.
(b) Wenlock Jakes.
(c) Edward Robinson.
(d) Jack Bannister.

3. To where does William walk after returning to his hotel, following the incident in Croydon?
(a) Westminster Abbey.
(b) Hyde Park.
(c) The Megalopolitan Office.
(d) South Kensington.

4. What side of the Ishmaelite conflict does Lord Copper insist is in the right?
(a) The Traitors.
(b) The Independents.
(c) The Patriots.
(d) The Rebels.

5. What longtime secret ambition of William's is near to fulfillment towards the end of Book 1, Chapter 3?
(a) To leave England.
(b) To fly in a plane.
(c) To visit a foreign country.
(d) To cover a big story.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the woman who attends William in the equipment emporium?

2. In what month do the events of the <i>Scoop</i> begin to unfold?

3. Where is William intending to depart the train?

4. To what country does <i>The Daily Beast</i> want William Boot to travel?

5. What food do William, the French administrator, and the administrator's children reject while dining on the <i>Francmacon</i>?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is revealed about the priorities of the <i>Daily Beast</i> by the man asking for William's passport as he is about to depart?

2. Describe William's interaction with his unusual fellow passenger in the restaurant car of the train to Marseilles.

3. How do the journalists in Jacksonburg make up for the lack of news when they first arrive in Ishmaelia?

4. For what reason does Mr. Salter insist upon William keeping a low profile until the passport mess is sorted out?

5. Why does Uncle Theodore sporadically sing snatches of old songs?

6. What does William think about when he sees the unappetizing fish offered to him at lunch aboard the <i>Francmacon</i>?

7. Why does William not travel with the rest of the journalists to Laku?

8. What realization prompts Lord Copper to see himself as a lonely, deserted leader, having to make do for the incompetence of his subordinates?

9. What primarily disgusts William about the <i>Daily Beast</i> on his return to civilized parts of the world?

10. How do the guests of Lord Copper's banquet amuse themselves while Lord Copper delivers his 38-minute speech?

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