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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How significant is Hollis in the story?
(a) He is a minor character.
(b) He is the narrator.
(c) He is the main character.
(d) He is the antagonist.

2. What does Laurie realize about Jon?
(a) That he is bald and blue in color.
(b) That he can defeat his enemies.
(c) That he can appear in multiple places simultaneously.
(d) That he can see into the future.

3. What did Ozymandias do in 1958?
(a) He performed the first teleportation.
(b) He refused to arrest vigilantes.
(c) He married Silk Spectre.
(d) He performed the first vigilante arrests.

4. What do these pages describe?
(a) The strange appeal of comic criticism.
(b) The strange appeal of violent comics.
(c) The strange appeal of pirates.
(d) The strange appeal of pirate comics.

5. What did Hooded Justice do after his HUAAC appearance?
(a) He wrote a play about it.
(b) He vanished.
(c) He went to Russia.
(d) He complained to the President about it.

6. Who was the first-ever real-life costumed hero?
(a) Hooded Justice
(b) Captain America.
(c) The Comedian
(d) Superman

7. Where does this chapter take place?
(a) In Arizona, as Jon reviews his life.
(b) On the surface of the moon, as Jon reviews his life.
(c) In New York City and Vietnam.
(d) On the surface of Mars as Jon reviews his life.

8. How did the United States come to win the Vietnam War in 1971?
(a) Direct intervention by Dr Manhattan and Ozymandias.
(b) Direct intervention by President Richard Nixon, who had visited China.
(c) Direct intervention by Dr Manhattan and The Comedian.
(d) They dropped a nuclear bomb on Hanoi.

9. Where does Jon meet Laurie?
(a) At Captain Metropolis's funeral.
(b) At a dinner party with President Nixon.
(c) On Miami beach.
(d) At Captain Metropolis's meeting.

10. What was Shexnayder's attitude to the expulsion of Silhouette?
(a) He supported it.
(b) It repelled him.
(c) He tried to prevent it.
(d) He wanted her to take it up before the Human Rights Commission.

11. What opinion does the Professor have of Dr Manhattan's super-powers?
(a) They are dangerous because Dr Manhattan is unstable.
(b) They will cause Russia to attack America.
(c) They will make America unpopular.
(d) They will give an enormous advantage to America.

12. What was Jon's father's trade?
(a) Watchmaker.
(b) Designer.
(c) Builder.
(d) Locksmith.

13. What was the original group of costumed heroes called?
(a) The Minutemen.
(b) The Avengers.
(c) The Laughing Cavaliers.
(d) The Comedians.

14. What was the result of Mothman's appearance before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee?
(a) He went into despair and committed suicide.
(b) He had to pay a substantial fine.
(c) He was eventually cleared.
(d) He was jailed as a communist.

15. What was Rorschach's birth name?
(a) Edward Hollis Blake
(b) Walter John Kovacs.
(c) William John Kovak.
(d) Walter Joseph Kovacs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What degree does Jon gain at university?

2. Who are the women who attend Captain Metropolis's meeting?

3. What was Adrian Veidt's identity as a costumed hero?

4. Hollis became which costumed hero?

5. Who is Janey Slater?

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