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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what language does Mr. Baldwin speak with Mr. Popotakis?
(a) Farsi.
(b) Demotic Greek.
(c) Sicilian.
(d) English.

2. How much per week does William agree to pay Kätchen for news?
(a) 10 American dollars.
(b) 100 pounds.
(c) 100 American dollars.
(d) 200 pounds.

3. For how long has Frau Dressler lived in Africa?
(a) All her life.
(b) Thirty years.
(c) Seventeen years.
(d) Ten years.

4. Where is William Boot, on his return to England, first met by a <i>Daily Beast</i> representative?
(a) London.
(b) Victoria.
(c) Boot Magna Hall.
(d) Dover.

5. What is the name of the proprietress of the Hotel Liberty?
(a) Mrs. Emma Dressler.
(b) Mrs. Benita Juarez Jackson.
(c) Mrs. Earl Russell Jackson.
(d) Mrs. Marguerite Jack Jackson.

6. How much money per year is the contract Mr. Salter offers William at Boot Magna Hall?
(a) 2,000 pounds.
(b) 32,000 pounds.
(c) 500 pounds.
(d) 10,000 pounds.

7. What does Mr. Pappenhack regularly use as a sedative when his mind is restless?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) <i>Le Fleurs du Mal</i>.
(c) The evening newspaper.
(d) A toy train.

8. To whom is it commonly mistaken, by his family, that William has a romantic attachment?
(a) Sarah Penning.
(b) Frau Dressler.
(c) Miss Caldicote.
(d) Kätchen.

9. What regular Ishmaelite practice has kept the country from being colonized?
(a) Cannibalism.
(b) Ritual suicide.
(c) Witchcraft.
(d) Polygamy.

10. Where does William want to take Kätchen?
(a) Germany.
(b) England.
(c) Laku.
(d) France.

11. Which horse does Priscilla have to take on her evacuation for the sake of Mr. Salter's accommodation?
(a) The mare.
(b) The old mare.
(c) The bay.
(d) The old bay.

12. For how much does William buy the stones offered him by Kätchen?
(a) 10 pounds.
(b) 60 pounds.
(c) 20 pounds.
(d) 100 pounds.

13. What does William sign for Bateson while the latter has a drink?
(a) A napkin.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) A cleft-stick.
(d) A hat.

14. Which relative greets William on his return to Boot Magna Hall?
(a) Uncle Theodore.
(b) Priscilla.
(c) Uncle Bernard.
(d) Uncle Roderick.

15. Which animal attacks the former welterweight champion who had come to visit William at Frau Dressler's?
(a) The three-legged dog.
(b) The enormous pig.
(c) The milch-goat.
(d) The gander.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of the Boot family keeps Mr. Salter up late and unintentionally forces him to sleep in a chair?

2. Onto what structure does Mr. Baldwin parachute?

3. How long does the Soviet Union of Ishmaelia last?

4. At what time did the Ishmaelites think the journalists were leaving?

5. How many gorillas does Hitchcock jokingly claim to have seen after his "return" from Ishmaelia's interior?

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