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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What compels Marco to give up women?
(a) His desire to find love.
(b) Raymond's dislike of all the women.
(c) His realization that he is gay.
(d) His disturbing dreams.

3. For what was the sanitarium built?
(a) Recovering war veterans.
(b) KGB labs.
(c) Severe mental disabilities.
(d) The use of alcoholics and recovering drug addicts.

4. What does the man do who forced Marco to sign the paper?
(a) He commits suicide.
(b) He takes Marco home.
(c) He quits his job.
(d) He pays well for his services.

5. What is the American patrol is quickly conditioned to believe?
(a) They are in a prison being watched by Chinese and Russian officials.
(b) They are home watching poker played on television.
(c) They are still on the front lines of battle.
(d) They are living in comfortable downtime, drinking Coca-Cola and gambling on a game of cards.

6. Two years later, Raymond receives a phone call asking him to do what?
(a) Remember what happened in Korea.
(b) Forget he knows Marco.
(c) Play a little solitaire.
(d) Confess his sins.

7. How does Iselin solidify his power in the senate?
(a) By not listening to his wife.
(b) By being a strong leader.
(c) By doing what his voters ask.
(d) By leading investigative committees and strong-arming opponents with hints of blackmail.

8. Why does the doctor say Raymond would be the perfect assassin?
(a) He is already an assassin and would only need to build a new allegiance.
(b) He is good with weaponry and is already a spy for the Chinese.
(c) He has many friends who would be willing to trust him.
(d) He would be accepted everywhere due to his political questions and is susceptible to mental conditioning, because he lacks emotional connections to other people.

9. What enters the Iselin home once they are lawfully wed?
(a) Dysfunction.
(b) Iselin's children from a previous marriage.
(c) Iselin's true nature.
(d) Sexual dysfunction.

10. What happens when Marco sits by a beautiful woman on a train?
(a) He gets up and switches seats.
(b) He begins to yell at her.
(c) He stares at her.
(d) He begins to weep uncontrollably.

11. What does Marco do one night?
(a) He does not bring women home.
(b) He throws Raymond out of the apartment.
(c) He moves out.
(d) He wakes up screaming and twisting in the bed.

12. How does the chapter begin?
(a) With an exploration of the history of the Medal of Honor.
(b) With a list of men who have received the Medal of Honor.
(c) With the reasons why Shaw does not deserve the Medal of Honor.
(d) With a description of the Medal of Honor.

13. What does he state will happen if the major continues in his attempt at the court-martial?
(a) He will be exiled.
(b) He will be held incommunicado and denied all rights.
(c) He will be murdered.
(d) He will be imprisoned.

14. How does Raymond feel about the events surrounding the divorce?
(a) He would forever resent his father for this scandal.
(b) He never stopped loving his parents.
(c) He would resent both of his parents for this scandal.
(d) He would forever resent his mother for this scandal.

15. What is the cover story for Raymond's visit?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Hallucinations.
(c) Drug addiction.
(d) His being knocked over by a hit-and-run driver.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a flashback to the Korean War, what are Ed Mavole and Bobby Lembeck doing?

2. What does Raymond's mother do for Iselin?

3. What concerns the public?

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

5. Why does Raymond's mother have no regrets?

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