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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the similarity between juggling and composing on a typewriter?
(a) There is no similarity.
(b) When you miss, try, try again.
(c) When you spill something, make it look like part of the act.
(d) You can juggle a typewriter.

2. What is the writer thinking about the Remington SL3 during the first "Interlude" in the novel?
(a) It's the fastest typewriter made.
(b) It's the best typewriter he ever owned.
(c) He thinks the typewriter may be smarter than him.
(d) He's no longer convinced it will do.

3. What does the king do for a career?
(a) He is a gardener.
(b) He is a surgeon.
(c) He is a pie baker.
(d) He gambles.

4. What does the writer want to send his readers?
(a) Radio signals.
(b) Crystals.
(c) Coney Island hot dogs.
(d) Orchids and Peonies.

5. Who is the juggler mentioned by the writer?
(a) Crystal Karamazov.
(b) Remington Steele.
(c) Paris Karamazov.
(d) Olivetti.

6. While Leigh-Cheri and Gulietta are gone, what are the King and Queen struggling with in Chapter Thirty?
(a) Their blackberries.
(b) Their electric dishwasher.
(c) Cleaning the rain gutters.
(d) Sleep.

7. How old is Gulietta?
(a) In her forties.
(b) In her thirties.
(c) In her seventies.
(d) In her eighties.

8. In the story the writer tells about the Second World War, what happens to the American pilot?
(a) The pilot parachutes from his burning plane.
(b) He lands his plane in the water near Japan.
(c) He lands in Japan, refuels, then flies back to America, then back to Japan again.
(d) He crashes his plane in the jungles of Japan.

9. While visiting him in his hideaway, what disclosure does Leigh-Cheri make to Bernard about how he makes her feel?
(a) Bad about being a princess.
(b) Guilty about being a princess.
(c) Happy she lives in America.
(d) Good about being a princess.

10. Where does Leigh-Cheri learn Bernard is staying?
(a) Lahaina Small Boat Harbor on the High Jinks.
(b) Lahaina Large Boat Harbor on the High Jinks.
(c) At the Pioneer Inn.
(d) In a tent behind the Hilton.

11. What does Leigh-Cheri ask the frog in the beginning of Chapter Two?
(a) "Is the moon made of green cheese?"
(b) "How many stars are in the sky?"
(c) "What purpose is a Remington SL3?"
(d) "Does the moon have a purpose?"

12. Why doesn't the writer switch machines?
(a) He can't find his warranty.
(b) He is too tired to go shopping.
(c) Nothing is open at that late hour.
(d) He can't find another red typewriter.

13. How long does it take Bernard to escape from prison?
(a) Less than a year.
(b) One year to the day.
(c) Two years.
(d) More than a year.

14. How is Leigh-Cheri described in Chapter Thirteen?
(a) Her blue eyes are soft and moist as "huevos rancheros".
(b) Her hair is straight and red as ironed ketsup.
(c) Her hair rides gravity's one-way ticket all the way to her waist.
(d) The long curl of her lashes cause fimbrillate shadows to fall on the swell of her cheeks.

15. What is the writer going to inject into a lime?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Anais Nin.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Sugar water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bernard say about Leigh-Cheri's attitudes?

2. What hangs on the walls of Leigh-Cheri's room?

3. What happens when Leigh-Cheri goes to the place she last saw Bernard?

4. In Chapter Thirty-Three Leigh-Cheri awakens from a dream where Ralph Nader does what?

5. What does Bernard say he is not?

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