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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is "Blue Canoe?"
(a) The FBI's private plane.
(b) Jack Crawford's favorite cologne.
(c) The FBI's private boat.
(d) An affectionate nickname for Clarice's roommate.

2. In Chapter 22, Dr. Lecter tells Clarice that Buffalo Bill wants what?
(a) A new car.
(b) A vest with female breasts on it.
(c) Freedom to be open about his sexuality.
(d) A butterfly collection.

3. Whom does Dr. Lecter thank as he is leaving in the ambulance to be taken to Tennessee?
(a) Dr. Chilton's secretary.
(b) Clarice.
(c) Dr. Chilton.
(d) Barney.

4. What is Buffalo Bill's routine with his victims?
(a) He abducts them, calls the family for ransom, collects the money, and then kills them.
(b) He puts them in a hole and buries them up to their neck.
(c) He shoots them and dumps them in a ravine.
(d) He abducts them, keeps them for a week, skins them alive, and dumps them in a river.

5. What does Dr. Lecter feel when recalling the death of Benjamin Raspail?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Agony.
(d) Excitement.

6. What item does Barney bring for Clarice when she visits Dr. Lecter in Chapter 25?
(a) A notepad.
(b) A tape recorder.
(c) A chair.
(d) A school desk.

7. When the roll-up door gets stuck, how does Clarice open it far enough for her to get under?
(a) She drives her car through it.
(b) The person who accompanied her holds it open.
(c) She props it up with a stick.
(d) She uses jacks from her car.

8. Buffalo Bill has how many known victims?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Twenty-four.
(d) Seventeen.

9. How does Buffalo Bill subdue his latest victim?
(a) He injects her with a powerful sedative.
(b) He cracks her over the head repeatedly with his plaster cast.
(c) He gives her GHB.
(d) He ties her to a chair with rope.

10. Who dumped Jame Gumb for another man?
(a) Frederica Bimmel.
(b) Benjamin Raspail.
(c) Klaus.
(d) Catherine Martin.

11. Describe Dr. Lecter's "lodgings" and "uniform" while his cell is being cleaned.
(a) He is cuffed to a pole, wearing a straightjacket and a gag.
(b) He is moved to another cell, wearing the typical hospital whites.
(c) He is locked in a plexiglass box wearing only underwear.
(d) Bound to a mover's hand truck with a straightjacket, leg restraints, canvas webbing, and over his face, a hockey mask.

12. What does Catherine see that finally brings home the identity of her abductor?
(a) A poodle.
(b) A broken cast.
(c) A broken, bloody fingernail with glitter nail polish.
(d) A bucket of buffalo wing bones.

13. Whose spouse is dying, forcing that character to keep vigil at the spouse's bedside?
(a) Benjamin Raspail's.
(b) Clarice Starling's.
(c) Jack Crawford's.
(d) Barney's.

14. What does Clarice find in the jar that is in the Packard?
(a) Preserved pig fetuses.
(b) A real human head.
(c) Dirt.
(d) A collection of butterflies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In psychoanalytic terms, what is an imago?

2. Where does Senator Martin's offer allow Dr. Lecter to travel to once a year for vacation in return for information to help find her daughter?

3. Dr. Lecter tells Dr. Chilton that Buffalo Bill's first name is what?

4. What does Jack Crawford think that Dr. Lecter might have done just for fun?

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

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