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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Joy's job?
(a) A musician.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A librarian.
(d) A schoolteacher.

2. What is wrong with the plane Persse is on between London and Ireland?
(a) The landing gear won't come down.
(b) Cabin pressure has dropped.
(c) A nosewheel tire has blown out.
(d) An engine is on fire.

3. Who asks the final question of the speakers at "The Function of Criticism" forum?
(a) Fulvia Morgana.
(b) Persse McGarrigle.
(c) Jacques Textel.
(d) Angelica Pabst.

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

5. What career has Hilary decided she wants to pursue?
(a) Marriage counseling.
(b) Interior design.
(c) Nursing school.
(d) Opening a dress shop.

6. Where does Persse fly to from London?
(a) Lausanne.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Dublin.

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

8. What have the "Observer" and "Sunday Times" asked Hilary for?
(a) An interview with Philip.
(b) Excerpts of Philips' book to print.
(c) Complimentary copies of Philip's book.
(d) A photograph of Philip.

9. What is the new name of the Club Exotica?
(a) Girls Unlimited.
(b) The Cat's Meow.
(c) Girls Girls Girls.
(d) Pussyville.

10. Who anonymously sends Morris Zapp a newspaper cutting?
(a) Howard Ringbaum.
(b) Rudyard Parkinson.
(c) Philip Swallow.
(d) Desiree Zapp.

11. What character was Angelica playing in the literary work being enacted in Lausanne?
(a) Belladonna, the Lady of Situations.
(b) The Hyacinth Girl.
(c) Madame Sosostris, Clairvoyante.
(d) Eugenides.

12. What does Persse find of Angelica's in the trash?
(a) An earmarked magazine.
(b) Tights that have a hole.
(c) A broken hairbrush.
(d) A handwritten to-do list.

13. What is the average attendance at the annual MLA conference?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 1,000.

14. What author is the subject of the conference Morris Zapp attends in Zurich?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Jane Austen.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What poet does Philip correctly identify when quoted to him?

2. Whom does Persse run into at the penthouse party's buffet?

3. Who does Morris Zapp invite to his Jerusalem conference via letter?

4. Where does Persse McGarrigle run into Miss Sybil Maiden in Hawaii?

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

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