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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. What is the name of the foundation formed in 1947?
(a) The Mushari Foundation.
(b) The New York Foundataion.
(c) The Kennedy Foundation.
(d) The Rosewater Foundation

2. Where are the Rosewater Corporation main offices?
(a) Carnaby Street in London.
(b) Wall Street in New York.
(c) Market Street in San Francisco.
(d) Fifth Avenue in New York.

3. What does Eliot do with the Foundation's money?
(a) Puts it into building the Golden Gate Bridge.
(b) Puts it into medical research, art, and helping people.
(c) Puts it into stocks and bonds.
(d) Puts it into buildings in New York City.

4. While fighting in Europe in WWII, into what smoke-filled building does Eliot lead his platoon?
(a) A munitions factory?
(b) A lingerie factory.
(c) A clarinet factory.
(d) A tongue depressor factory.

5. When Sylvia asks Eliot where he is calling from, how does he reply?
(a) "From a railroad station up east."
(b) "From a phonebooth in the midwest."
(c) "From nowhere you can understand."
(d) "From a drab little American anywhere."

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Senator Rosewater have?

2. What happens at the opening of the opera Aida attended by Eliot and Sylvia?

3. In Washington DC, while meeting with McAllister, Musahri, and Sylvia, what does Senator Rosewater wish aloud?

4. What is the original plan for the canal?

5. What is the name of the disease Dr. Brown attributes to Sylvia's nervous condition, and what does it mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eliot's letter to his heir reveal about his parents?

2. What is the tone of the letter written by Eliot to his heir about the family history? How can you tell?

3. What does the law firm McAllister, Robjent, Reed, and McGee do for the Rosewater Foundation? What does Mushari learn while rifling through confidential files? What plan does he hatch based on his findings?

4. In Chapter Three, Eliot begins talking to people in front of a firehouse in Vashti, Texas. What does he identify as the main purpose of the Armed Forces in America?

5. When Eliot finally enters psychoanalysis, what changes does he make? How long is he in treatment? Why does the psychoanalysis end?

6. On the same day of calls from a suicidal man and Stelle Wakeby, Eliot receives a call from his father and does not recognize his father's voice. What are some of the things Senator Rosewater wants to talk to his son about, and how does the conversation end?

7. Where is Eliot Rosewater born and raised? Where does he attend school? What degree, and with what specialty, does Eliot obtain after WWII?

8. Who is Eliot Rosewater? What do we learn about him in the first chapter of the novel?

9. How do Sylvia and Eliot react to the social set of Avondale? With who do they socialize? What happens because of this association?

10. How did the people of Avondale greet Sylvia and Eliot when they move to Rosewater? Why do they treat them this way?

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