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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what kind of gun does Jason Taverner have experience?
(a) A Barber's Brain.
(b) A Barber's Hoop.
(c) A Barber's Cape.
(d) A Barber's Pole.

2. What virtue does Jason Taverner believe to be overrated?
(a) Truth.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Integrity.

3. In what vice does Jason Taverner engage, while Heather Hart does not?
(a) Smoking.
(b) Using cocaine.
(c) Tapping into the phone-grid transex network
(d) Drinking.

4. Inspector McNulty calls Jason Taverner by what incorrect last name?
(a) Tanvers.
(b) Maverick.
(c) Tavern.
(d) Taverstein.

5. How many private policeman does Heather Hart have working for her?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

6. What does Jason say to Heather Hart that frightens her so much that she breaks off contact?
(a) He says that the vidscreen is probably being recorded.
(b) He says that he will be killed.
(c) He says that the line is probably being monitored.
(d) He says that the police are probably on the way to her house.

7. When Jason Taverner wakes up without any identification, he is no longer in the hospital. Where is he?
(a) In Ruth Rae's apartment.
(b) At the television studio.
(c) In a shabby motel room.
(d) In the San Francisco police station.

8. Kathy confides in Jason Taverner that she had been committed to a psychiatric hospital for what length of time?
(a) 4 weeks.
(b) 8 weeks.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 12 weeks.

9. For what length of time has Jason Taverner had one particular protégée?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 years.

10. After Jason Taverner successfully gets through the police checkpoint, Kathy grabs him from the shadows under what object?
(a) A streetlamp.
(b) A large oak tree.
(c) A quibble.
(d) A building.

11. What objects does Kathy remove from Jason Taverner's identification cards once they are alone?
(a) Invisible ink scrawlings.
(b) Faulty holograms.
(c) Microsensory stickers.
(d) Microtransmitter dots.

12. Inspector McNulty tells Jason Taverner that Jack had died in what manner?
(a) At a forced labor camp.
(b) Due to toxic waste.
(c) From an illness.
(d) A quibble accident.

13. Inspector McNulty does NOT mention which connotation in conjunction with the surname he believes to belong to Jason?
(a) Water.
(b) Beer.
(c) Warmth.
(d) Coziness.

14. Jason Taverner decides that he needs to avail himself of what type of woman?
(a) A woman with a family.
(b) An older woman with money.
(c) A woman with a soft spot for underdogs.
(d) A woman with an apartment.

15. Heather Hart had been arrested one year prior to the novel's opening for what transgression?
(a) Theft.
(b) Disorderly conduct.
(c) Sale of drugs.
(d) Possession of drugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What syndicate had once tried to buy into Jason Tavener's television show?

2. What major commonality do Jason Taverner and Heather Hart share?

3. What sort of hair does Heather Hart have?

4. After Jason Taverner calls Heather Hart, what happens?

5. According to Felix Buckman, Alys comes to her husband Felix's office whenever she has been taking what actions?

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