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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Pantaleon and Carriscant make when they partner?
(a) Brilliant medical team.
(b) Formidable criminal defense team.
(c) Voting bloc in the hospital.
(d) Bulwark against Cruz.

2. Who is George Fugal?
(a) A San Francisco detective.
(b) Kay's ex-husband.
(c) An accountant.
(d) Kay's lawyer.

3. What does Cruz refuse to do?
(a) Give them his fingerprints.
(b) Go with them to see the Constable.
(c) Hand over the body.
(d) Go with them to the hospital morgue.

4. Carriscant says he met Annaliese Leys _______________.
(a) In Malaysia.
(b) In Scotland.
(c) In the Philippines.
(d) In China.

5. Why does Kay go to her former home?
(a) To retrieve the last few things of hers.
(b) To take a few more pictures.
(c) To meet the buyer.
(d) To orient the buyer to the home's design.

6. What happened to cause a war in the Philippines?
(a) Britain tried to colonize them.
(b) The Japanese invaded.
(c) The United States tried to colonize them.
(d) The Chinese invaded.

7. What is apparent when Carriscant visits Pantaleon's house?
(a) There is a strain in their friendship.
(b) The two have little social interaction.
(c) Carriscant does not trust Pantaleon.
(d) Pantaleon is not happy to see Carriscant.

8. What does Carriscant say his father did for a living?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) An architect.
(d) An engineer.

9. How did Coleman Brockway die?
(a) A congenital birth defect.
(b) Killed in an accident.
(c) Crib death.
(d) Polio.

10. What is Kay's stipulation for her going with Carriscant?
(a) He will not tell everyone he's her father.
(b) They will have separate berths.
(c) He will spend time with her.
(d) He will tell her everything.

11. How does Cruz view Carriscant professionally?
(a) As an incompetent bungler.
(b) As a very competent surgeon.
(c) As a bribe taker.
(d) As a dangerous radical.

12. What is the year of the setting of the chapter "Tongue"?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1898.

13. What does Philip say he has done?
(a) Gotten a good-paying job.
(b) Gotten married.
(c) Become engaged.
(d) Paid the IRS.

14. What does Kay infer about Philip during their marriage?
(a) He was indifferent.
(b) He was more interested in his work than her.
(c) He was a loving husband.
(d) He had an affair.

15. What does Carriscant write to Kay?
(a) A note to say that his lawyers have written up a will.
(b) A poem about a father missing out on his daughter's life.
(c) A letter explaining how he knows he is her father.
(d) A letter to give her his temporary address.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kay have lunch with her mother?

2. What does Carriscant have when he returns to Manila?

3. What is Kay Fischer's occupation?

4. Where does Carriscant want Kay to go with him?

5. What is the year when the novel opens?

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