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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Cruz's ward like when Carriscant visits it?
(a) Neat and clean but has many dead patients.
(b) Filthy and full of dead patients.
(c) Almost empty.
(d) Only one patient with a large goiter.

2. What do Carriscant and Delphine do in his office?
(a) Talk about divorcing their spouses.
(b) Make love.
(c) Argue.
(d) Decide not to continue to see each other.

3. Why does Carriscant start a fire in Sieverance's shed?
(a) To distract the household so he can speak to Delphine.
(b) He does not start a fire in the shed; the groom started the fire by accident.
(c) To try to lure Sieverance into dying in the shed trying to save the animals.
(d) He does it accidentally when he overturns a lantern.

4. What does Pantaleon decide upon to push the aircraft?
(a) Two reverse propellers.
(b) A team of six horses.
(c) An American tank.
(d) Six forward propellers.

5. Of what does Pantaleon inform Carriscant?
(a) Pantaleon has found a co-pilot.
(b) Pantaleon is moving to Europe.
(c) Carriscant is expected to pilot the plane.
(d) Carriscant has to find another engine.

6. What do Bobby, Carriscant, and some policemen do?
(a) Swear out a warrent for Cruz.
(b) Forcibly search the hospital.
(c) Hold Wieland captive for several hours.
(d) Search Cruz's personal operating theater and morgue.

7. How long is Carriscant in Bilibid Prison?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 1 year.

8. How does Carriscant contrive to meet Delphine alone?
(a) Asking the nurse to bring his wife inside.
(b) Asking the nurse to get him some water for medication.
(c) Pretending to fall off the library ladder.
(d) Saying he needs to check her scar.

9. Why does Kay dismiss Delphine's confession?
(a) Kay believes Delphine.
(b) Delphine could not have gotten the jump on a professional soldier.
(c) It does not fit with the story.
(d) It is the delusions of a dying woman who would have liked to kill him.

10. What does Carriscant note about Pantaleon's airplane?
(a) It is too heavy.
(b) It is off balance.
(c) It has graceful, strong, complex construction.
(d) Its design is very simple.

11. Why does Carriscant visit his wife's uncle?
(a) To obtain an engine for Pantaleon.
(b) To ask the uncle's business advice.
(c) To give the uncle a physical examination.
(d) To tell the uncle that Carriscant is getting a divorce.

12. What does Annaliese say she wants?
(a) More spending money.
(b) A divorce.
(c) To reconcile with Carriscant.
(d) An abortion.

13. What happens when Panteleon and Carriscant take off in the plane?
(a) It never gets off the ground.
(b) It initially sputters, then levels out quite well.
(c) It eventually crashes, killing Panteleon.
(d) It flies and lands quite well.

14. What does Bobby say about Carriscant regarding the two murders?
(a) Bobby thinks Carriscant knows who killed the men.
(b) He botched one of the autopsies.
(c) That Carriscant could not have done the murders.
(d) He is a suspect.

15. What does Delphine think of her husband?
(a) He is limiting and small.
(b) He is kind and good.
(c) He is abusive.
(d) He has affairs regularly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Carriscant's Chinese patient?

2. Why do Kay and Carriscant go around to sweet shops?

3. What was the outcome of Carriscant's trial?

4. When do Kay and Carriscant land in Lisbon?

5. What does Bobby do when Carriscant talks to him?

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