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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Beatles' song does the narrator describe singing in the bar with Man and Bon in Chapter 1?
(a) "Yesterday."
(b) "Black Bird."
(c) "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
(d) "Help!"

2. What word in the novel refers to the practice of concealing a message within another message?
(a) Patriarchy.
(b) Stenography.
(c) Steganography.
(d) Lithography.

3. How old was the communist agent with the papers in her mouth when she was arrested?
(a) 26.
(b) 22.
(c) 19.
(d) 32.

4. What does the Congressman say that the movie is about that he is advising on in Chapter 7?
(a) The Tet Offensive.
(b) The Ho Chi Minh Campaign.
(c) The Nixon Doctrine.
(d) The Phoenix Program.

5. Who wrote the following quote that opens the novel: "Let us not become gloomy as soon as we hear the word 'torture'"?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Adolf Hitler.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the movie director's assistant?

2. What Founding Father does the narrator describe having said that an older mistress is a wonderful thing in Chapter 5?

3. What kind of store does the narrator describe the General opening in Chapter 5?

4. When did Lana come to America to attend college?

5. When did the narrator's family flee to the South after living in a northern hamlet?

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