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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Persse meet on the plane to Seoul?
(a) Ronald Frobisher.
(b) Angelica Pabst.
(c) Arthur Kingfisher.
(d) Song-Mi Lee.

2. What does Persse do while waiting for the travel agents to set up his rental house?
(a) He has lunch.
(b) He calls his mother.
(c) He sends Morris Zapp a postcard.
(d) He applies for an American Express card.

3. With whom does Desiree Zapp have an affair at the Heidelberg conference?
(a) Persse McGarrigle.
(b) Rodney Wainwright.
(c) Siegfried von Turpitz.
(d) Ronald Frobisher.

4. What is the literal meaning of "karaoke"?
(a) "Amateur singers."
(b) "Wordless music."
(c) "Voice projection."
(d) "Empty orchestra."

5. In which country is it "not necessary" to tip taxi drivers?
(a) Israel.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Japan.
(d) Norway.

6. Where does Persse McGarrigle run into Miss Sybil Maiden in Hawaii?
(a) In the airport.
(b) In the lobby of his hotel.
(c) On the beach in Waikiki.
(d) At a luau.

7. What excuse does Joy use to leave Ankara early?
(a) A friend was in a serious accident.
(b) Her aunt has died.
(c) A problem with her house.
(d) Her son is sick.

8. Where does Persse discover that Angelica studied for a year?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Harvard.
(c) University College, Dublin.
(d) The Sorbonne.

9. Where is Angelica flying to from Geneva?
(a) London.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Amsterdam.

10. Whom does Persse run into at a bar in Lausanne?
(a) Philip Swallow.
(b) Michel Tardieu.
(c) Angelica Pabst.
(d) Morris Zapp.

11. What is Miranda doing when Joy tells Philip he is her father?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Skipping rope.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Playing with her dolls.

12. What literary work is referenced in the prayer Persse had previously hung up in the airport chapel?
(a) "The Faerie Queene."
(b) "The Waste Land."
(c) "Orlando Furioso."
(d) "Pamela."

13. In what decade's fashions are the people of Lausanne dressed?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1890s.
(d) 1920s.

14. Which one of these professors does not speak at "The Function of Criticism" forum?
(a) Morris Zapp.
(b) Philip Swallow.
(c) Rudyard Parkinson.
(d) Michel Tardieu.

15. Where does Angelica have an inverted comma-shaped birthmark?
(a) On her arm.
(b) On her foot.
(c) On her back.
(d) On her thigh.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Persse fly to from London?

2. Who is mentioned in a newspaper cutting sent to Morris Zapp as a possible UNESCO chair?

3. In which country is soup eaten at every meal?

4. With whom does Fulvia Morgana have an affair at the Vienna conference?

5. What does Persse find of Angelica's in the trash?

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