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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. In Chapter 5, what does James say that Lindsay Keller avoids doing?
(a) Exercising.
(b) Making assuptions about others.
(c) Making plans.
(d) Flirting.

2. In Chapter 1, what word does Kathryn bet James that Tap knows?
(a) Gale.
(b) Demagogue.
(c) Ballast.
(d) Dervish.

3. What one aspect of Owen's experience are the men of his story interested in?
(a) Alphabets.
(b) His religion.
(c) His wealth.
(d) His American heritage.

4. Why did Owen Brademas promote Kathryn so quickly?
(a) She thinks she is a prodigy.
(b) She was sleeping with him.
(c) She helped him get a book published.
(d) His workers were quitting.

5. Who is the inspiration for Tap's novel?
(a) Owen Brademas.
(b) James Axton.
(c) Alexander Hamilton.
(d) Oedipus Rex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Volterra need to travel to meet a possible cult member in Chapter 6?

2. In Chapter 1, what does James say is the only thing he can remember in Greek?

3. What advice does Rowser give James in Chapter 3?

4. What offer does James make to Charles in Chapter 4?

5. According to Owen in Chapter 5, what has America become?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Tap Axton.

2. Describe Kathryn and James' argument in Chapter 5?

3. What indication exists in Chapter 1 that relations are strained between James and Kathryn?

4. How is Owen haunted by his childhood memories of religion?

5. What conversation do Eliades and James have at dinner in Chapter 3?

6. What do Owen and James talk about at the end of Chapter 2?

7. Why is Volterra in Jordan in Chapter 6?

8. Describe Owen Brademas.

9. What plan does Volterra have for his life after film?

10. How has Charles Maitland changed of late?

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