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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 title of William Boot's regular column in <i>The Daily Beast</i>?
(a) <i>London Gentleman.</i>
(b) <i>Plashy Fens.</i>
(c) <i>The Questing Vole.</i>
(d) <i>Lush Places.</i>

2. What unfortunately happens to William's first passport?
(a) It is dropped in a river.
(b) It has a terrible photo.
(c) It is burned.
(d) It is lost.

3. Which member of the Boot household is the richest in ready cash?
(a) The Elder Widow Boot.
(b) Nannie Bloggs.
(c) Nannie Price.
(d) The Widow Boot.

4. How does William's train companion relate making the acquaintance of his valet?
(a) They both once worked at <i>The Daily Brute</i>.
(b) They served together in the war.
(c) They met at an English pub.
(d) They went to church together.

5. How much money is William given by <i>The Daily Beast</i> in traveler's checks?
(a) 10,000 pounds.
(b) 1,000 pounds.
(c) 1000 shillings.
(d) 100 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is William perplexed by the telegram he receives from <i>The Daily Beast</i> while at Aden?

2. What side of the Ishmaelite conflict does Lord Copper insist is in the right?

3. What does the Swiss waiter attempt to persuade William's companion in the train to purchase?

4. What object of William's passes by the customs officials of the airport without scrutiny?

5. For what does William's companion on the train thank William?

Short Essay Questions

1. What important piece of news does Kätchen bring to William after the former spends a morning shopping?

2. For what reason does William move out of the Hotel Liberty and into the Pension Dressler?

3. Why do the newspapers routinely return from the sickrooms "hopelessly mutilated" at Boot Magna Hall?

4. How does Mrs. Stitch persuade Lord Copper to seek out John Boot as the foreign war correspondent to Ishmaelia?

5. How is Lord Copper is made at ease in the unfamiliar social circle of Lady Metroland?

6. What greatly inconveniences William on his arrival in Paris?

7. What primarily disgusts William about the <i>Daily Beast</i> on his return to civilized parts of the world?

8. How does Nannie Boggs misunderstand Mr. Salter's visit to Boot Magna Hall?

9. Why does William not travel with the rest of the journalists to Laku?

10. What realization prompts Lord Copper to see himself as a lonely, deserted leader, having to make do for the incompetence of his subordinates?

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