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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. A cable from London tells Wormold:
(a) to use Milly as a courier
(b) to try to recruit Captain Segura
(c) to minimize contacts with Hasselbacher
(d) to try to recruit Hasselbacher

2. Which of the following does Hawthorne not considered a necessity for Wormold's office:
(a) a gun
(b) combination-safe
(c) trained staff
(d) radio

3. What does the Chief want?
(a) a meeting with Wormold
(b) updated information
(c) photographs of the machinery
(d) documentation

4. Oriente Province, which he visits is:
(a) big market for vacuum cleaners
(b) the home of the rebels
(c) new market for vacuum cleaners
(d) a vacation resort

5. How does Wormold know which page, line and word of the book to use to decode the message?
(a) it was prearranged with Hawthorne
(b) the Consulate staff must tell him
(c) from the four digit number at the beginning of the message
(d) he must guess

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Wormold goes to keep his appointment with Hawthorne?

2. In a cable to Hawthorne, Wormold tells of:

3. While Beatrice is talking to Wormold, who arrives?

4. Who joins their table at the outing for Milly?

5. What does Wormold use for the strange machinery sketches:

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Wormold feel up to his morning daiquiri with Hasselbacher?

2. What does Wormold do in response to his anger over what was done to Hasselbacher?

3. What happens when Wormold is on his way to meet Hawthorne?

4. What does Wormold learn about the Englishman who had been in his shop?

5. What happens when Hawthorne hears footsteps approaching the men's room?

6. When Wormold learns that Milly wants a horse for her birthday, what two facts does he find disturbing?

7. How does Wormold lose Hasselbacher to keep his appointment with Hawthorne?

8. Wormold sends a list of three names who are his sub-agents. Where does he obtain the names from?

9. What indicates that Wormold didn't know what he was getting into when he accepted money from Hawthorne?

10. Why is Wormold questioned by the police in Santiago?

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