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brass-and-marble toilet fixtures
    e) where Liza Minnelli got her start
    5.  Charmant is a word the French use to describe:
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    a) vacationing American tourists
    b) foreigners in general
    c) the last ten years of the nineteenth century
    d) Fats Domino
    e) only themselves
    6.  Upon first seeing Paris, Noel Coward was heard to exclaim:
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    a) Quelle ville!
    b) Ou sont les garçons?
    c) J’ai besoin d’un pissoir
    d) Hello, sailor
    7.  When in Rome, one must always:
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    a) do as the Romans do
    b) never do as the Romans do
    c) visit the Spanish Steps
    d) learn the Spanish Steps
    e) keep alert for a place to hide
    8.  Truk is:
    a) Munich’s newest disco
    b) A Moroccan delicacy made of cherries and lamb’s wool
    c) a small island in the Pacific
    d) the Slavic word for “misunderstanding of a sexual nature”
    e) a much-beloved Norse god responsible for herring

PART TWO

In the Following Lists, Cross Out the Word That Does Not Belong 25 Points
    Bangkok, the floating market, Wat Po, Big Foot, the Emerald Buddha
    Lomotil, aluminum hydroxide, miesskeit, Valium, Kaopectate
    Richard the Lion-Hearted, Frederick the Great, Mad Ludwig, William the Conqueror, Crazy Eddie
    Swedes, Finns, Germans, Poofters, Koreans

PART THREE

Essay Question 50 Points
    In early 1978 the Indonesian island of Komodo was closed to visitors because a giant Komodo dragon went berserk and ate an American tourist. In 300 words or less deal with the following: What did the tourist look like? What was he wearing that so antagonized the reptile? Was the dragon’s act a political statement? Was he acting on orders? On impulse? Is there anyone you would like to eat? See eaten? Who? Should the lizard be punished? Rewarded? What do you think this all means? Wouldn’t you really rather have a Buick?

ON THE PERSONALLY DISTRESSING ASPECTS OF BEING INTERVIEWED:
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• Character Assassination for Fun and Profit •
    O h, how I love to be interviewed! How I look forward to answering certain questions which have, since they’ve been asked so often, become like old friends, family even, expected company whenever the interviewer shows up, perspiring and poorly dressed, notebook open, cassette recorder recharged. Oh, those old familiar questions, questions that make me twitch with discomfort at the déjà vu of it all, questions that occur to members of the Fourth Estate with such killing regularity that I have often considered the possibility of a vast intrigue against me, a conspiracy to make the worst of my wit. Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time—if not of my block—being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews. Now, I adore deceit and don’t give a damn about being misrepresented or misquoted, but I will not be made to sound boring to the thousands who are convinced that I am, if not Jackie O, well, certainly the next-best thing. The decline in the quality of my interviews stems directly from the lack of challenging questions put to me. You’d be in the same boat if year after year you were faced with these dreary queries:
    Q: How did you get your start?
    What they really mean is: What was it like to work in a steam room with all those fairies dressed in towels? EEEUU! For some reason which will forever remain a mystery to me, the idea of a woman entertaining an audience dressed only in towels—an all-male audience, and homosexual, yet—is to every reporter I have ever met at once repulsive yet endlessly fascinating. They cannot hear enough of it.
    This is inevitably the first question in any interview, and even though I know it’s coming, I always wince when it lands. It gets very depressing, you know. I’m certain that whatever I may doin my life, whatever I may achieve, the headline of my obituary in The New York Times will read:

BETTE DEAD
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Began Career at Continental Baths
    I will now say what I pray to God will be my final word on the subject.
    It was a great job and a great experience. I