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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the agent who recruited Clarice? She later refers to this character as "a two-faced recruiting sergeant son of a bitch."
(a) Bella Crawford.
(b) Jame Gumb.
(c) Jack Crawford.
(d) Ardelia Mapp.

2. What characteristic of Buffalo Bill is evident in the blouse found by the police homeless man's cart?
(a) It is neatly buttoned and folded.
(b) It is cut to ribbons.
(c) It is slit up the back.
(d) It has been freshly laundered.

3. What is the name of Jame Gumb's poodle?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Princess.
(c) Precious.
(d) Fluffy.

4. What does Dr. Lecter want in return for his help with catching the serial killer?
(a) More privileges.
(b) His freedom.
(c) He wants Clarice to marry him.
(d) A cell with a view.

5. What creature from her childhood reminds Clarice of Dr. Chilton?
(a) A glue factory bound horse.
(b) A preening rooster.
(c) An opportunistic crow.
(d) An insignificant ant.

6. What does Clarice do in Chapter 4 to gather more information for her research on one of Dr. Lecter's victims?
(a) She goes back to Quantico and accesses microfilm.
(b) She contacts the Baltimore police and goes through their files.
(c) She visits the stacks of the local library.
(d) She visits the victim's family.

7. What does Jack Crawford think that Dr. Lecter might have done just for fun?
(a) Turned loose a bunch of dangerous lunatics.
(b) Ingested a human liver.
(c) Killed his entire family when he was just a child.
(d) Tried on women's clothing and shoes.

8. What does Dr. Lecter thank Barney for?
(a) Years of decent treatment.
(b) A pencil and a piece of paper.
(c) Clean towels.
(d) His gourmet dinner.

9. What kind of insect does the Erebus odora cocoon belong to?
(a) The Black Witch Moth.
(b) The Skinner Butterfly.
(c) The Darius Moth.
(d) The Monarch Butterfly.

10. Why does Jack Crawford tell Clarice to keep any inside information from Dr. Chilton?
(a) Dr. Chilton has been known to sell information to the tabloids.
(b) Dr. Chilton will try to solve the case on his own.
(c) Jack Crawford thinks Dr. Chilton could be Buffalo Bill's true identity.
(d) Dr. Chilton will compromise the case for his own notoriety.

11. Who killed Benjamin Raspail and why?
(a) Dr. Lecter killed Benjamin Raspail because he was whiny and making no progress.
(b) Jack Crawford killed Benjamin Raspail because he tried to get away.
(c) Benjamin Raspail killed himself during auto-erotic asphyxiation.
(d) Benjamin Raspail is still alive.

12. What question does Buffalo Bill ask of the girl he abducts in Chapter 15?
(a) If she is a Chianti drinker.
(b) If she is about a size fourteen.
(c) If she likes popcorn.
(d) If her mother knows that she is smoking hashish.

13. Who is Benjamin Raspail?
(a) A flutist for the Baltimore Philharmonic who disappeared in March of 1975.
(b) Starling's African-American roommate.
(c) A psychiatrist who likes to play mind games with law enforcement.
(d) A cheap redneck, one generation out of the mines.

14. What does Buffalo Bill demand that Catherine do, or else the hose will be turned on her?
(a) Dance.
(b) Have her mother send money.
(c) Tell him that he's beautiful.
(d) Wash her skin and rub lotion on it.

15. What does Jack Crawford think that Dr. Lecter knows about Buffalo Bill?
(a) Buffalo Bill's true identity.
(b) Buffalo Bill's favorite meal.
(c) Buffalo Bill's reason for killing.
(d) Buffalo Bill's mode of transportation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Clarice get angry with Jack Crawford at the funeral home?

2. Why did the Senator offer Dr. Lecter special privileges for his assistance in finding her daughter?

3. Describe Dr. Lecter's "lodgings" and "uniform" while his cell is being cleaned.

4. Why doesn't Clarice like Albert Roden?

5. What did Dr. Lecter tell Clarice she would find in the Packard?

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