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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the record executive's wife?
(a) Esther.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Mafia.
(d) V.

2. Who is Rachel Owlglass?
(a) Benny's mother.
(b) Rachel was a society girl from Long Island who Profane met in the Catskills.
(c) A supermodel.
(d) A tall barmaid.

3. Where does Benny get an interview?
(a) Subway station.
(b) Outlandish Records.
(c) Underground Metro.
(d) Restaurant.

4. Who does Waldetar see crying?
(a) Victoria Wren.
(b) Hugo.
(c) Mildred Wren.
(d) Profane.

5. What is Lepsius wearing at the party?
(a) Blue-tinted eyeglasses.
(b) A cravat.
(c) A gun holster.
(d) A carmelian rose.

6. What is a strange habit of the seaman who Benny recognizes in the bar from the Navy?
(a) He sleeps upside down.
(b) He wears a toupe.
(c) He chews his foot.
(d) He likes to bite the buttocks of barmaids.

7. What happens during "suck hour" at the bar?
(a) People fight over drinks.
(b) Everyone gets a lollipop.
(c) Seamen curl up and sleep.
(d) Sailors can drink from rubber breasts attached to beer taps.

8. What are the two men planning to do that a third man called Gaucho disagrees with?
(a) To kidnap the wine owner's daughter.
(b) To start a war.
(c) To enter a cooking competition.
(d) To enter the Uffizi and steal a painting.

9. What does Rachel Owlglass do for a living in New York City?
(a) She is an interviewer at an employment firm.
(b) She is an accountant.
(c) She is a dentist.
(d) She is a receptionist at a law firm.

10. What does Rachel do that Benny is afraid of?
(a) Yell.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Sing.
(d) Drive recklessly.

11. What apparently had Paola done by marrying Pappy Hod?
(a) Cheat on her husband.
(b) Fall in love.
(c) Overcome her alcoholism.
(d) Come to America.

12. What is the name of the tavern that Benny Profane enters in Norfolk, Virginia on Christmas Eve, 1955?
(a) Mermaid Tavern.
(b) Reservoir.
(c) Sailor's Grave.
(d) Butch Cat.

13. What does Angel do for a living?
(a) He dances in Times Square.
(b) He cooks meat.
(c) He catches alligators in the sewers of New York City.
(d) He kills people.

14. What is the name of the pilot who needed facial reconstruction?
(a) Evan Godolphin.
(b) Profane.
(c) Dr. Schoenmaker.
(d) Esther.

15. Who is the competitor for Lepsius's business?
(a) A sunburned Englishman.
(b) Victoria Wren.
(c) His wife.
(d) Benny Profane.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Benny attend a New Year's party on a boat?

2. Who is Alice?

3. Who is Fina?

4. How do Benny and Rachel first meet?

5. Who are the Playboys?

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