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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event prompted Bliss to join the military in the 1960's?
(a) The Kent State shootings.
(b) Woodstock.
(c) The Tet Offensive.
(d) The assassination of Robert Kennedy.

2. Which famous public figure recently had a sex scandal explode in the restaurant where Nick meets Heather Holloway in Chapter 9?
(a) Gordon Craighead.
(b) Senator Finisterre.
(c) Jeff Megall.
(d) Lorne Lutch.

3. What does Naylor discover the Captain done for him at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) He has fired Jeannette.
(b) He has given him a larger office
(c) He has doubled his salary.
(d) He has given him a new Lexus.

4. What is St. Euthanasius?
(a) The church where Nick was married.
(b) A DC hospital where a young boy is dying of lung cancer.
(c) Nick Naylor's alma mater.
(d) Nick's son's boarding school.

5. What request does Reverend Griggs make of Naylor in Chapter 10?
(a) He wants Nick to stop picking his son up.
(b) He wants Nick to find a consultancy for the school.
(c) He wants a donation from the Academy.
(d) He wants Nick to speak at a Board dinner.

6. What airport is Naylor in when BR calls him in Chapter 6?
(a) Dulles.
(b) Laguardia.
(c) Reagan.
(d) O'Hare.

7. What game does Nick play as he drives to St. Euthanasius in Chapter 10?
(a) He tries to lose his security detail.
(b) He tries to find a Bee Gees song on the radio.
(c) He looks for him name mentioned on AM radio.
(d) He tries to make only left turns.

8. What does Nick imagine the two FBI agents interviewing him in Chapter 12 doing?
(a) Kissing each other.
(b) Burning down the hospital.
(c) Killing his assailants.
(d) Colluding with BR.

9. In Chapter 1, how does Nick characterize JJ Hollister?
(a) A corporate hack.
(b) A belligerant drunk.
(c) A ghost of a human being.
(d) An old tobacco-man.

10. What does B.R. not do that is odd given his position at the Academy?
(a) He does not travel by air.
(b) He does not watch press conferences.
(c) He does not read.
(d) He does not smoke.

11. What drink does the Captain insist Nick Naylor join him in?
(a) A scotch and water.
(b) A bloody mary.
(c) An old-fashioned.
(d) A mint julep.

12. What does BR refuse from Naylor at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) A bribe.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Small talk.

13. In the Prologue, what does the autocrat in Naylor's story do to those caught selling tobacco?
(a) He cuts off their hands.
(b) He beheads them.
(c) He imprisons them.
(d) He burns them alive.

14. Where does the Captain recommend Nick go as soon as possible in Chapter 9?
(a) New York.
(b) Toronto.
(c) London.
(d) Los Angeles.

15. What news did Naylor accidentally announce on air as a television announcer?
(a) The launching of a nuclear strike.
(b) A space-shuttle explosion.
(c) The death of the President.
(d) A major earthquake in California.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state did the shooting that Bobby Jay Bliss is trying to spin in Chapter 2 take place?

2. How many nicotine patches are put on Nick's body in Chapter 11?

3. At the end of Chapter 5, how much money does Naylor say the Academy is committing to a campaign to stop underage smoking?

4. How does Bobby Jay Bliss know Heather Holloway?

5. Which periodical requesting a quote from Nick Naylor in Chapter 1 annoys him?

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