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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the best description of Leamas' life, from the public's point of view, once he leaves British intelligence?
(a) A quick fall from power.
(b) An amazing military victory.
(c) A personal success story.
(d) A respectable transition.

2. Who is Pitt?
(a) A man at the post office.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A man at the Labor Exchange.
(d) Leamas' old rival.

3. After he stops working for British intelligence, where does Leamas live?
(a) In a retirement home.
(b) In his family's home.
(c) In a small, shabby apartment.
(d) Out in the country on a farm.

4. Once everyone realizes that Leamas is wanted in Britain, where does Peters take Leamas?
(a) Deeper into the spy prison building.
(b) Shopping for clothes so he can go undercover.
(c) East Berlin.
(d) America.

5. What people does Control tell Leamas to look up before starting his new mission?
(a) George Smiley & Peter Guilliam.
(b) No one -- he's supposed to work alone.
(c) George Guilliam & Peter Smiley.
(d) Karl Reimeck & Peter Smiley.

6. What drives Leamas' unhealthy life choices in after he leaves British intelligence?
(a) His grief.
(b) His depression.
(c) His new secret mission.
(d) His alcoholism.

7. When did Leamas' spy career begin?
(a) When he was a very young boy.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1959.

8. What happens to Karl in the first chapter?
(a) He quits his job.
(b) He retires and has a party.
(c) He becomes a spy.
(d) He is shot.

9. Where is Ashe's apartment located?
(a) Del Mar Square.
(b) Fisherman's Square.
(c) Dolphin Square.
(d) Marina Square.

10. Who is Control?
(a) Head of the British intelligence agency.
(b) Leamas' doctor.
(c) The guy who fixes Leamas' computer.
(d) The head of British technology.

11. What character does Leamas also meet once he is released from prison?
(a) Control.
(b) Liz Gold.
(c) His mother.
(d) Miss Crail.

12. What items did the secret mission, revealed to Peters by Leamas at the Hauge, involve?
(a) Fake drugs.
(b) Fake passports and signatures.
(c) Fake stolen objects, such as radios.
(d) Fake guns and other weapons.

13. What country has Leamas NOT lived in?
(a) Britain.
(b) Norway.
(c) Holland.
(d) America.

14. When Leamas is released from jail, he meets someone. What do they first do together?
(a) They go see Control.
(b) They start a new company.
(c) They rob a bank.
(d) They go out to lunch.

15. What does Liz buy for Leamas when she finds him in his apartment?
(a) Medical care.
(b) Poison.
(c) Food and medicine.
(d) Books to read.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Alexander Thwaite?

2. Which language does Leamas speak?

3. Who is Liz Gold?

4. What does Leamas expect will happen when he meets with Control in Chapter 2?

5. What is Liz Gold's relationship to Leamas when they first meet?

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