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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what condition is Kay's house?
(a) Completed.
(b) Painted a different color.
(c) Half gone.
(d) Torn down.

3. Where do Carriscant and Kay go?
(a) To talk to Philip.
(b) To find Carriscant more permanent lodgings.
(c) To visit Paton Bobby.
(d) To visit Kay's mother.

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

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

6. In what year does Kay graduated from M.I.T?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1929.

7. What does Kay decide about her resemblance to Carriscant?
(a) She looks more like him than like Hugh Paget.
(b) She looks as much like Carriscant as Hugh Paget.
(c) She doesn't look like him.
(d) She looks almost the spitting image of Carriscant.

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

9. From what country is Annaliese's father?
(a) Russia.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

10. What does Kay do outside Carriscant's apartment one day?
(a) Watches to see if he leaves.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Writes down the license plate numbers of everyone's car in the area.
(d) Takes pictures of any visitors to his apartment.

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

12. Who is Ephraim Ward?
(a) An army private from Kansas.
(b) An Air Force Colonel from England.
(c) Another lawyer in Carriscant's practice.
(d) A surgeon at San Jerónimo.

13. Where does Carriscant go after he runs a few errands?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) The police station.
(c) A church.
(d) A bar.

14. What motivates Kay to accompany Carriscant to Europe?
(a) Her mother urges her to go.
(b) Carriscant offers to pay her way.
(c) Information from Meyersen.
(d) Her lawyer thinks she needs to get away for a while.

15. What is the year when the novel opens?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kay decide she will do concerning Carriscant?

2. What is the setting of the chapter "Tongue"?

3. Why does Kay spend a lot of time with her lawyer?

4. How does Carriscant view Cruz professionally?

5. What does Cruz refuse to do?

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