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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 do the villagers want to do after the pilot dies?
(a) They want to dedicate a statue to him.
(b) They want to return his body to America.
(c) They want to cremate his body.
(d) They want to give him a traditional Christian burial.

2. Who wins when Chuck and the King play poker?
(a) They both take turns.
(b) Chuck.
(c) Princess Leigh-Cheri.
(d) The king.

3. What is one of the contraception methods Bernard considered that has to do with the moon phases?
(a) Lunaception.
(b) Moonception.
(c) Mooning.
(d) She-Moon, He-Moon.

4. How long were the Furstenberg-Barcalona's exiled?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Thirty years.
(c) Fifty years.
(d) Twenty years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the frog's name?

2. What does the queen keep close to her bosom?

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

4. What does Leigh-Cheri study?

5. What mistake does Bernard make as he carried out his intentions for being at the conference?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Montana Judy, Bernard's outlaw girlfriend, turn him in to the police? What happens to him because he was turned in?

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

4. What question does the People magazine journalist, Reed Jarvis, ask Leigh-Cheri that ends up bringing tears to her eyes as she responds?

5. What is learned about Leigh-Cheri during the incident with the frog on the plane?

6. In Chapter Thirty-Six there is a lengthy explanation about the difference between ideas and objects. In summary, what is said about the two?

7. Why is Leigh-Cheri so upset when she returns to the boat where Bernard was staying?

8. What do the metaphors used in the Prologue tell the reader about what the writer wants to provide for them?

9. What is the rat/mongoose-crime/cop analogy?

10. What goes wrong with the conference in Chapter Thirty-Six?

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