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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Caroline Rosewater ask her husband for when while Fred and Harry Pena are talking?
(a) Money for a new winter coat.
(b) Money for her expensive lunch with her friend.
(c) Money to pay the bills.
(d) Money to go to the mall and shop.

2. What does Eliot tell Sylvia he will buy for their meeting?
(a) A haircut.
(b) A pair of new shoes.
(c) A new car.
(d) A new suit.

3. What do men Fred insures believe is their only get-rich scheme?
(a) To insure their wives and hope they die first.
(b) To insure their homes and set them on fire.
(c) To insure their businesses then go bankrupt.
(d) To insure themselves and die young.

4. Who is Harry Pena?
(a) An ex-insurance salesman who is now a professional wrestler.
(b) An ex-insurance salesman who is now a lawyer.
(c) An ex-insurance salesman who now owns a restaurant on a yacht.
(d) An ex-insurance salesman who is now a professional fisherman.

5. What do Harry and his sons trap in their fishing nets while Amanita and Caroline have lunch?
(a) Salmon.
(b) Tuna.
(c) Mackerel.
(d) Swordfish.

6. What does Stewart's attorney tell him about his plan to spend his fortune?
(a) "Money makes its own money."
(b) "Money is dehydrated Utopia."
(c) "Money is hard to earn and hard to keep."
(d) "Money buys you time."

7. What did Eliot see on the copy of The American Investigator he found in his pocket?
(a) "Insane or Sane? (See Inside).
(b) "Sanest Man In America? (See Inside).
(c) "Best Looking Man Alive? (See Inside).
(d) "Is This Man Crazy? (See Inside)

8. While the Senator is talking with Eliot in his apartment, what occurs?
(a) Eliot storms out of the room and runs to the fire station to hide.
(b) The alarm clock goes off at noon and Eliot sounds the noon time siren at the fire house.
(c) Eliot asks his father what time it is.
(d) Eliot screams at hearing the news and sets off the siren at the fire house.

9. What reading material does Eliot choose for his bus trip to Indianapolis?
(a) Kilgore Trout's Pan-Galactic Three Day Pass.
(b) Rolling Stone Magazine.
(c) The American Investigator.
(d) Kilgore Trout's This Time It Is over.

10. What does Kilgore Trout look like to Fred when he sees the man's photo on the back of the book?
(a) An old man with a full moustache, an aging Hercule Poirot.
(b) An old man with a full black beard, an aging Jesus.
(c) An old man with a pot bellly and white hair, a Santa Claus.
(d) An old man with a full grey beard, an aging Jesus.

11. What is written on the fountain in Dr. Brown's private hospital?
(a) "Pretend you are not more than you are, and the Gods will be happy."
(b) "Pretend to be good always, and even God will be fooled."
(c) "Pretend to know the answer even when there is no answer."
(d) "Pretend to be good always, and you will be a fool."

12. What did Fred's father write and leave to him before dying?
(a) A suicide letter.
(b) A note of apology to the family.
(c) A will.
(d) A family history.

13. What legal representation does Stewart Buntline have?
(a) McNorton, Krandle, and Little.
(b) Rosenson, Richmond, and Smith.
(c) McAllister, Robjent, Reed, and McGee.
(d) McSorely, Anderson, and Smith.

14. What does Eliot do for Noyes Finnerty while he is in prison?
(a) Eliot has Noyes paroled.
(b) Eliot gives Noyes his ticket to INdianapolis.
(c) Eliot gives Noyes ten thousand dollars.
(d) Eliot has Noyes arrested for assault.

15. Who infuriates Eliot by calling him on the red phone designated for fire emergencies?
(a) Mary Moody.
(b) Norman Mushari.
(c) Delbert PEach.
(d) Stewart Buntline.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kilgore Trout explain Eliot's devotion to volunteer fire departments?

2. What does Fred tell Caroline is above the door of the National Archives in Washington?

3. How does Senator Rosewater arrive at Eliot's apartment?

4. What is one of Eliot's favorite Kilgore Trout books dealing with ingratitude?

5. How much time has passed since Eliot left Rosewater and the meeting at the fountain?

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