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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What important decision does Dan make?
(a) To have Rorschach murdered in prison.
(b) To ask Laurie to rescue Rorschach.
(c) To rescue Rorschach from prison.
(d) To ask Laurie to marry him.

2. What is the message in Adrian Veidt's office memo?
(a) Nostalgia perfume will be discontinued and replaced.
(b) There needs to be a new advertising campaign for Nostalgia perfume.
(c) Production of nostalgia perfume is to be stepped up.
(d) Nostalgia perfume is to be repackaged.

3. What is the sailor's mental state when he joins the pirates?
(a) Anticipation.
(b) Eagerness.
(c) Enthusiasm.
(d) Despair.

4. What place does this section have in the structure of the graphic novel?
(a) It begins a new segment of narrative.
(b) It profiles all the costumed heroes.
(c) It opens up discussion about costumed heroes.
(d) It winds up the story of the Minutemen costumed heroes.

5. What do we learn about Hollis Mason's autobiography?
(a) That its publication has been suppressed.
(b) That it has recently been published.
(c) That its publication has been paid for by an anonymous source.
(d) That its publication was expensive for Hollis.

6. What is the paper's attitude to costumed heroes?
(a) It promotes them as being true Americans and patriots.
(b) It promotes them because their exploits make great news.
(c) It has a neutral, objective viewpoint.
(d) It condemns their behaviour.

7. In the context of Watchmen, what is a masquerade?
(a) A dance.
(b) A pretence or deception; a disguise..
(c) A rude comedy sketch played after Shakespearean tragedies.
(d) A dance where people wear masks.

8. Ih what form are these documents?
(a) A scrapbook miscellany.
(b) A file of newspaper clippings.
(c) A scrapbook about The Comedian.
(d) A travel scrapbook.

9. Who organized and paid for the attack on Adrian Veidt?
(a) Pyramid Industries.
(b) Pyramid Laboratories.
(c) Miramax.
(d) Sphenoid Laboratories.

10. What motivated the Nazi punks to attack and kill Hollis Mason?
(a) Detective Fine paid them to do it.
(b) They were inflamed by anti-costumed hero rhetoric in the press.
(c) They were given a contract by a local gangster.
(d) They were high on drugs.

11. What is the significance of the information given in this section?
(a) It provides insight into the character of Max Shea and other artists.
(b) It provides important information about the newspaper's attitude.
(c) It provides good moral leadership for the community.
(d) It provides important information relating to the plot of the novel.

12. Why does Dan wake up during the night?
(a) He is hungry.
(b) He thinks Laurie has left him.
(c) He has had a nightmare.
(d) He has had a

13. With what is Rorchach charged?
(a) Scaling the facade of a building.
(b) Stealing from Edgar Jacobi and Harvey Furniss.
(c) The murders of Edgar Jacobi, Gerald Grice and Harvey Furniss.
(d) The murders of Elsa Jacobi, Gerald Grace and Harvey Furnis.

14. How is Jon's giant mechanism powered?
(a) Wireless.
(b) Solar cells..
(c) Clockwork.
(d) Nuclear energy.

15. What it so special about the snowstorm ball?
(a) It was a souvenir from a family holiday.
(b) It was a present from her first boyfriend.
(c) Laurie has the feeling it slows time down.
(d) Laurie has a feeling it is a miniature world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the sailor in The Black Freighter comic finally makes it home?

2. What does Sally reveal to the interviewer?

3. Identify the interviewer's attitude to Veidt.

4. Who was the author of the inter-office memo?

5. What can we assume about "The Veidt Method"?

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