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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Eleanor Shaw divorce Raymond's father?
(a) When she caught him with another woman.
(b) When she is six months pregnant with her second child.
(c) Two years after she married him.
(d) When she is six months pregnant with Raymond.

2. Early the next morning, what interrupts Shaw and the young newspaperwoman in the act of sex?
(a) A crash.
(b) The telephone ringing.
(c) A sharp and insistent knocking on his hotel room door.
(d) A loud scream.

3. In a flashback to the Korean War, what are Ed Mavole and Bobby Lembeck doing?
(a) Standing guard.
(b) Shooting at enemy snipers.
(c) Visiting a brothel.
(d) Taking a nap.

4. Who greets Shaw at the airport?
(a) The President of the United States.
(b) His mother.
(c) No one.
(d) An army of photographers and his opportunistic mother.

5. How old is Raymond when he meets Jocelyn Jordan?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Twenty-one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives Raymond Shaw the medal?

2. From where has Raymond Shaw recently returned?

3. What has Shaw's mother, the wife of influential senator Johnny Iselin, arranged?

4. How does Shaw's mother position herself and her husband, when Shaw is presented the Medal of Honor?

5. What does Raymond's mother like about Iselin?

(see the answer key)

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