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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Alex's nightmare about the night they spent in the inn?
(a) Joanna running from him.
(b) Doctors and Rio.
(c) Wayne being killed in the hospital.
(d) Joanna lying on a steel operating table.

2. What does some of what Chelgrin has to tell Alex have to do with?
(a) The political situation in the United States.
(b) The Russians.
(c) The situation in the Middle East.
(d) The Germans.

3. What happens the night they arrive at their destination?
(a) They are accosted by Carrera.
(b) They miss their flight to England.
(c) They make love for the first time.
(d) They are arrested on a trumped-up charge.

4. What wakens Joanna and Alex the first morning in London?
(a) The phone ringing.
(b) The fire alarm.
(c) A pounding on the door.
(d) Jackhammers across the street from their hotel.

5. Where do Joanna and Alex take a train to?
(a) Nagasaki.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Hiroshima.
(d) Beijing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What awakens Joanna the next morning after her second session with Inamura?

2. What does Herr Doktor do when he comes in the room?

3. What has Peterson been doing?

4. How does Rotenhausen die?

5. What does Alex hear coming from a closed door he has found?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Joanna and Alex when they arrive in St. Moritz? What does Peterson have to do with it and what might a reader be wondering at this point?

2. What does Chelgrin know about his daughter and what does he seem to feel about her?

3. How does Alex feel about the inn where they stop and what does it make him wonder? What type of theme might his situation bring up?

4. Who is Peterson and how was he involved in the entire situation?

5. What does the hypnosis session do in the novel as far as narrative technique is concerned?

6. Why did Peterson do what he did and what theme does it touch upon again?

7. What do Alex and Joanna find that show Chelgrin in a different light and what does he have that will help them find Herr Doktor?

8. Where does Alex go after he wakes up and what happens there?

9. How do Alex and Joanna leave London and what happens that surprises Alex? What does this make him suspect?

10. What happens to Alex and Joanna's hotel room and what might this suggest to the reader?

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