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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Alice Kauffman?
(a) Morris Zapp's publisher.
(b) The author of an article being reviewed by Arthur Kingfisher.
(c) One of Rodney Wainwright's students.
(d) Desiree's agent.

2. What does Persse go into town to buy?
(a) Toothpaste.
(b) Condoms.
(c) Cologne.
(d) Flowers.

3. What is Persse drinking at the Royal Academy of Literature's prizegiving party?
(a) Red wine.
(b) White wine.
(c) Guinness.
(d) Water.

4. What delays Morris Zapp's flight in Rummidge?
(a) Mechanical problems.
(b) Fog.
(c) Snow.
(d) Heavy wind.

5. What was the council representative's wife wearing?
(a) A red nightgown and matching robe.
(b) Pink flannel pajamas.
(c) One of her husband's T-shirts and blue sweatpants.
(d) A light blue velour robe.

6. What is the epilogue to Philip's story?
(a) The council representative and his wife divorced.
(b) The entire family died in a plane crash.
(c) He fathered a child with her.
(d) Philips sees the wife every time he visits Italy.

7. On which poet did Persse McGarrigle write his thesis?
(a) John Keats.
(b) William Butler Yeats.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

8. Why did Frobisher travel to Darlington?
(a) To attend a conference.
(b) To accept an honorary degree.
(c) To teach a class.
(d) To visit family.

9. What is "ELIZA"?
(a) A software program enabling computers to hold conversations.
(b) A new movie.
(c) The name of Robin Dempsey's car.
(d) A sailboat upon which Morris Zapp is holding a conference.

10. Who telephones Arthur Kingfisher from Berlin?
(a) Fulvia Morgana.
(b) Rodney Wainwright.
(c) Michel Tardieu.
(d) Siegfried von Turpitz.

11. What does Philip Swallow have thrown at him at the medieval banquet?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Tomatoes.
(c) Chocolate coins.
(d) Dinner rolls.

12. Who wrote the book Thelma Ringbaum is reading on the plane?
(a) Arthur Kingfisher.
(b) Ronald Frobisher.
(c) Morris Zapp.
(d) Philip Swallow.

13. How many people are attending the conference in Rummidge?
(a) 104.
(b) 57.
(c) 89.
(d) 150.

14. Where is the conference on the Future of Criticism being held?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Monte Carlo.

15. What is the title of Morris' ex-wife's novel?
(a) "Day by Day."
(b) "The End of Days."
(c) "Difficult Days."
(d) "Day In, Day Out."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Morris reading on the plane to Milan?

2. Which of these is not one of Morris Zapp's pillars of the "global campus"?

3. What does Morris leave the room to get before Philip tells his story?

4. Whom does Felix Skinner call first to give a reader's report on Persse McGarrigle's book about T.S. Eliot and Shakespeare?

5. Whose latest book is Rudyard Parkinson reviewing?

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