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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Gulietta?
(a) A woman that Max and Tilli hired to work for them after coming to the U.S..
(b) The last living servant who accompanied Max and Tilli into exile.
(c) A deaf mute servant who needed a home.
(d) The last servant to put up with Princess Leigh-Cheri.

2. What does the typewriter's intimidation cause the writer to consider?
(a) A fountain pen.
(b) The pen.
(c) A pencil.
(d) A woodpecker quill.

3. Who does Gulietta observe as she prepares to utilize the outdoors as a bathroom?
(a) Darth Vader.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Leigh-Cheri.
(d) Ralph Nader.

4. What does Leigh-Cheri study?
(a) Economics.
(b) Fashion design.
(c) History.
(d) Environmental science.

5. How is the Queen described in Chapter Three?
(a) Understimulated and hyperactive.
(b) Hyperactive and overweight.
(c) Understimulated and overweight.
(d) Overstimulated and underweight.

6. What does Leigh-Cherie read about in the Sunday paper?
(a) The Geo-Therapy Care Fest.
(b) A story about her is on the front page.
(c) A free trip to Hawaii.
(d) The government of her family's county has been overthrown.

7. For what does the writer's insurance company insures his typing finger?
(a) Arthritis and burns.
(b) They do not insure it.
(c) Fire and theft.
(d) Breaking and amputation.

8. What second exile does Princess Leigh-Cheri decide to enter?
(a) Celibacy.
(b) Celibrity.
(c) She moves to New York.
(d) She left home.

9. What is the writer thinking about the Remington SL3 during the first "Interlude" in the novel?
(a) He's no longer convinced it will do.
(b) He thinks the typewriter may be smarter than him.
(c) It's the best typewriter he ever owned.
(d) It's the fastest typewriter made.

10. Why does Bernard Mickey Wrangle grin as the plane lands in Honolulu?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Because he reaches Hawaii without detection.
(c) Because Twinkie cream makes him grin.
(d) Because something momentous is happening.

11. Who is not on the Twelve Most Famous Redheads list in Chapter Twenty?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Leigh-Cheri.
(c) Bernard Mickey Wrangle.
(d) Margaret Sanger.

12. What does her chaperon purchase for the trip?
(a) A surf board.
(b) Sea sick medicine.
(c) A bikini.
(d) A good book for the flight.

13. How do the villagers learn about Christian burials?
(a) By telephoning the American Embassy
(b) By looking it up on the Internet.
(c) By reading the pilot's Last Will in Testament.
(d) By reading Finnegans Wake.

14. What kind of hair coloring does Bernard use to hide his natural red color?
(a) Color made from roots and bark.
(b) Just for Men.
(c) Lady Clariol.
(d) Color made from roots and berries.

15. What does the writer's new typewriter speak?
(a) Electric Mark Twain.
(b) Electric linquistics.
(c) Electric Shakespeare.
(d) Spanish and French.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bernard suggest the world being a better place should start?

2. Where does the writer sense the novel of his dreams is located?

3. What does Bernard tell Leigh-Cheri he came to Hawaii to do?

4. What is the similarity between juggling and composing on a typewriter?

5. What metaphor does the writer use to say he hopes to make it to the end of the novel?

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