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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of hair coloring does Bernard use to hide his natural red color?
(a) Color made from roots and berries.
(b) Color made from roots and bark.
(c) Lady Clariol.
(d) Just for Men.

2. Why is Bernard at the conference?
(a) He is going to set off a bomb at the conference.
(b) He wants to learn about earth science.
(c) He is teaching a class on bomb making.
(d) He is taking a class on alternative energy.

3. What is the Queen's favorite American saying?
(a) "Oh-No, it's spaghetti-o."
(b) "Oh-Oh, spaghetti-o."
(c) "Hi-Ho, the dairy-o."
(d) "Oh-Oh, the radio."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the typewriter's intimidation cause the writer to consider?

2. What girlfriend/partner in crime turns Bernard in?

3. What does Bernard say he is not?

4. What does her chaperon purchase for the trip?

5. What happens when the Care Fest combines the panel on birth control with the one on child care?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the the Furstengerg-Barcalonas in exile?

2. In what way does the writer begin Chapter Eighteen?

3. What do you learn about the writer's creative mind as he tries to imagine a new typewriter design?

4. Who recognizes Bernard as the bomber of the Care Fest? Who makes a citizens arrest?

5. What happens when a writer publishes an open letter to Bernard calling him a victim of the Vietnam War?

6. As her plane lands in Maui, what thoughts does Leigh-Cheri have about herself?

7. Why is the writer dissatisfied with his new typewriter?

8. What kind of relationship does Leigh-Cheri have with Gulietta?

9. What is the writer's expectation for the typewriter?

10. Where did Bernard Hickey Wrangle, a.k.a. "The Woodpecker", set off a bomb that injured someone? What did Bernard do to make amends?

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