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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. Who is waiting for Paul in Milan?
(a) Molly.
(b) The Truong toc.
(c) Nguyên Kim.
(d) Dieter.

2. Where does Frankie Pigeon need to be picked up?
(a) Milan.
(b) Rome.
(c) Venice.
(d) Calabria.

3. How does Urpi describes Yu's analysis?
(a) As very disturbing.
(b) As incomprehensible.
(c) As obscure and metaphorical, too beautiful to deal with murder.
(d) As a conundrum.

4. What does Paul want Tom to do?
(a) Get out of Vietnam.
(b) Come to Rome.
(c) Hide out in Switzerland.
(d) Go back to the States.

5. What is fine and poetic in a rare idiom?
(a) The strips from Yu.
(b) Paul's poetry.
(c) The letters from the Turong toc.
(d) Some poetry Paul finds while in Milan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yu predict on 8 Sep 1963?

2. To whom is one of the men who is also a foreigner predisposed?

3. Who has been followed?

4. With what do they bombard Pigeon?

5. Who does Paul meet after dark?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Paul go to Rome and why does he go there?

2. Describe Dieter Dimpel and what he asks of Paul for payment for helping Paul.

3. What information does Paul get from Klimenko when they meet again?

4. How has Molly helped Paul to heal?

5. Describe Paul's initial visit with Ruiz.

6. How does Gherman Klimenko convince Paul that Klimenko knows Paul is not just a journalist.

7. With whom does Paul meet and upon what does Paul's report focus?

8. What does Paul insist upon before he will discuss the report and what is Turnbull's reply?

9. What happens to all the Cubans but Ruiz and why not Ruiz? What does Nsango ask about Ruiz?

10. How does the evening with Tom and Sybille go for Paul and Molly and what slightly mars the evening?

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