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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the Care Fest combines the panel on birth control with the one on child care?
(a) There is nearly a violent riot.
(b) The ideas are merged.
(c) There is a bar fight and the police have to break it up.
(d) There is a great interest in the speakers.

2. What is the only serious question mentioned in Chapter Two?
(a) "Who knows how to grow blackberries?"
(b) "Whether or not to kill yourself?"
(c) "Whether or not to continue reading?"
(d) "Who knows how to make love stay?"

3. What inspires Bernard's breath-fresh commercial he submits to Certs?
(a) The bad breath cure he invents.
(b) The fertility rite where women must wrestle and kiss a cobra.
(c) A Native American ritual.
(d) A fertility rite where women want to have children must kiss a cobra twice.

4. What religion are the villagers where the pilot ends up?
(a) Asians.
(b) Buddhists.
(c) Moslems.
(d) Christians.

5. For what does the writer's insurance company insures his typing finger?
(a) Fire and theft.
(b) They do not insure it.
(c) Arthritis and burns.
(d) Breaking and amputation.

6. 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's no longer convinced it will do.
(d) He thinks the typewriter may be smarter than him.

7. What hangs on the walls of Leigh-Cheri's room?
(a) Posters of the Hawwaiian Islands and photographs of Nick Nolte.
(b) Photographs of John Travolta and the BeeGees.
(c) A poster of Saturday Night Fever and photos of John Travolta.
(d) Posters of the Hawaiian Islands and photographs of Ralph Nader.

8. What happens to the writer's finger last week?
(a) It is cut when he is slicing limes.
(b) It is broken when he drops his typewriter on it.
(c) It is pinched by a giant land crab.
(d) Nothing happened to it.

9. What frightens the writer about the Remington SL3?
(a) It's misspell alarm.
(b) It's size.
(c) It's mechanical sophistication.
(d) It's speed.

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

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

12. What is the writer's old typewriter named?
(a) Remington Quick Tab.
(b) Remington SL2.
(c) Olivetti.
(d) Smith and Corona.

13. What does Bernard say about Leigh-Cheri's attitudes?
(a) That she has a bad attitude.
(b) That her attitudes are punishing him.
(c) That her attitudes are correct.
(d) That her attitudes are out-dated.

14. What does the typewriter's intimidation cause the writer to consider?
(a) A fountain pen.
(b) A pencil.
(c) A woodpecker quill.
(d) The pen.

15. What does Bernard tell Leigh-Cheri he came to Hawaii to do?
(a) To hide from the police.
(b) To find Nebraska Judy.
(c) To get married.
(d) To bomb the Care Fest.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Thirty-Eight, what does Bernard say he stands for?

2. What was the name of Bernard's gang?

3. How does the writer describe the Hawaii sun?

4. Who chaperons Princess Leigh-Cheri?

5. How does Bernard feel about TNT?

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