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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Morris reading on the plane to Milan?
(a) Philip Swallow's book.
(b) A literary journal.
(c) A collection of essays.
(d) A golfing magazine.

2. Where did Philip's plane make an emergency landing?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Paris.
(d) Genoa.

3. What club does Howard Ringbaum desperately want to join?
(a) The Order of Elks.
(b) MENSA.
(c) The National Rifle Association.
(d) The Mile High Club.

4. What does Morris leave the room to get before Philip tells his story?
(a) A notepad.
(b) His sweater.
(c) A cigar.
(d) A glass of water.

5. What is causing chaos in Italy when Morris and Fulvia arrive?
(a) A hurricane.
(b) An unexpected snowstorm.
(c) A power outage.
(d) A major labor strike.

6. In what city does Akbil Borak teach?
(a) Ankara.
(b) Queenstown.
(c) Padua.
(d) Oxford.

7. Which author's works is Akbil Borak trying to finish?
(a) Ronald Frobisher's.
(b) William Shakespeare's.
(c) William Hazlitt's.
(d) Arthur Kingfisher's.

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

9. 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.

10. At the end of Part II, Chapter 1, what character is standing at an open window, smiling into the sun?
(a) Robin Dempsey.
(b) Joy Simpson.
(c) Hilary Swallow.
(d) Persse McGarrigle.

11. What detail of Morris' life intrigues Fulvia?
(a) That his brother is a famous rock star.
(b) That his ex-wife wrote "Difficult Days."
(c) That he is a deconstructionist.
(d) That he doesn't drink alcohol.

12. ELIZA is named after a character in what play?
(a) "Pygmalion."
(b) "The Cherry Orchard."
(c) "Our Town."
(d) "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

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

14. What does the chapel resemble physically?
(a) An airplane.
(b) A confessional.
(c) A cathedral.
(d) A movie theatre.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the business on the reverse side of the prayer card Persse reads?

2. What has Persse written in the snow?

3. In what country does Fulvia Morgana teach?

4. What is the title of Morris Zapp's new book?

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

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