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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Carriscant need Kay's assistance?
(a) To arrange a meeting with Kay's mother.
(b) To help him get a green card.
(c) To find a man in Los Angeles.
(d) To find his son.

2. About what does Carriscant not seem surprised?
(a) Kay's mother is remarried.
(b) Kay's mother saying Hugh is Kay's father.
(c) Kay not wanting to have any contact with him.
(d) Kay joining him for lunch.

3. Where has Ward's body been taken?
(a) To Cruz's private morgue.
(b) To Pantaleon's private morgue.
(c) To a funeral home.
(d) To Carriscant's private morgue.

4. What does Kay do for Philip?
(a) Nurses him through an alcoholic binge.
(b) Gives him enough money to pay his utilities.
(c) Finds him another job.
(d) Helps him check into rehab.

5. What is Kay's mother's profession?
(a) Housewife.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Lawyer.

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

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

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

9. Whom does Carriscant think about when he returns home?
(a) His mother.
(b) His own hobby.
(c) Moving to the States.
(d) His wife.

10. What does Kay decide she will do concerning Carriscant?
(a) Talk to her grandmother.
(b) Write some people in New Guinea.
(c) Hear his story.
(d) Take the picture she snapped of him and show her mother.

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

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

13. Who is Paton Bobby?
(a) A police detective.
(b) A architect in a rival firm.
(c) The man for whom Carriscant is searching.
(d) One of Kay's creditors.

14. In what way does Cruz consider himself superior in the novel?
(a) Intellectually.
(b) Socially.
(c) Professionally.
(d) Racially.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salvador Carriscant claim?

2. Who is Eric Meyersen?

3. For what does Kay use a scalpel?

4. What does Pantaleon lack?

5. What does Kay say about how she knows Carriscant to her mother?

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