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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Salvador Carriscant claim?
(a) To be Kay's biological father.
(b) That he knows where Eric Meyersen is hiding.
(c) To be Brockman's attorney.
(d) That he can make her business flourish.

2. Why does Philip Brockman call Kay frequently?
(a) To ask for time with their child.
(b) To ask for a date.
(c) To report to her on the whereabouts of Eric Meyersen.
(d) To ask for money.

3. What does Kay do to gauge her mother's response?
(a) Shows her a picture of Carriscant.
(b) Talks about some facts that Carriscant gave her.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Arranges for Annaliese to see Carriscant.

4. What happened to Kay about the same time that Philip begins his drinking habit?
(a) Deep and prolonged depression.
(b) Theft of her design.
(c) Miscarriage.
(d) Graduate school rejection.

5. Why is Kay wanting to sell her house?
(a) It reminds her too much of her ex-husband.
(b) To avoid complete financial collapse.
(c) She has never liked it.
(d) She wants to move to Maine.

6. Where was Carriscant born?
(a) Philippine Islands.
(b) Borneo.
(c) China.
(d) Australia.

7. What does Carriscant see in Cruz's home?
(a) Lots of paintings of nude ment.
(b) Lots of paintings of nude women.
(c) Medical experiments.
(d) Several dead horses.

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

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

10. What does the buyer plan to do?
(a) Build condos on the land.
(b) Resell the house as quickly as possible.
(c) Build the house again and call it his design.
(d) Leave it in its unfinished state.

11. What happens when Kay visits Philip?
(a) She sleeps over in the guest room.
(b) They fight about Carriscant.
(c) They have sex, and she sleeps over.
(d) They fight about Kay selling her house.

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

13. What do Pantaleon and Carriscant do to a Chinese youth?
(a) Defend him in a wrongful murder suit.
(b) Remove a bullet next to his spine.
(c) Remove a tumor from his tongue.
(d) Defend his right to citizenship.

14. Who is Isidro Cruz?
(a) Carriscant's brother-in-law.
(b) Lawyer who often argues against Carriscant in court.
(c) Surgeon with whom Carriscant has a long-running feud.
(d) Young man who develops a crush on Annabelle.

15. What does Paton Bobby request Carriscant do in a recent murder?
(a) Talk to the defendant.
(b) Act as medical examiner.
(c) Take fingerprints.
(d) Defend the person arrested.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kay's mother live?

2. How old is Kay when the novel opens?

3. What does Carriscant study in Europe?

4. What is Kay Fischer's occupation?

5. What happens when Carriscant begins working in Manila?

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