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1. Which of the following is NOT among the 6. A person who eats a bowl of oatmeal for
features of a chronic disease? breakfast every day is most likely making a food
a. It develops slowly choice based on
b. It lasts a long time a. habit.
c. It produces sharp pains b. availability.
d. It progresses gradually c. body image.
d. environmental concerns.
2. What is the chief reason people choose the foods
they eat? 7. Which of the following represents a food choice
a. Cost based on negative association?
b. Taste a. A tourist from China who rejects a
c. Convenience hamburger due to unfamiliarity
d. Nutritional value b. A child who spits out his mashed potatoes
because they taste too salty
3. Which of the following is NOT among the c. A teenager who grudgingly accepts an offer
consequences of making poor food choices? for an ice cream cone to avoid offending a
a. Over the long term, they will reduce lifespan close friend
in some people d. An elderly gentleman who refuses a peanut
b. They can promote heart disease and cancer butter and jelly sandwich because he deems
over the long term it a child’s food
c. Over the long term, they will not affect
lifespan in some people 8. The motive for a person who alters his diet due
d. When made over just a single day, they to religious convictions is most likely his
exert great harm to your health a. values.
b. body image.
4. A child’s strong dislike of noodle soup that c. ethnic heritage.
developed after she consumed some when she d. functional association.
was sick with flu is an example of a food-related
a. habit. 9. A person viewing an exciting sports match of her
b. social interaction. favorite team and eating because of nervousness
c. emotional turmoil. would be displaying a food choice behavior most
d. negative association. likely based on
a. habit.
5. A parent who offers a child a favorite snack as a b. availability.
reward for good behavior is encouraging a food c. emotional comfort.
behavior known as d. positive association.
a. social interaction.
b. reverse psychology. 10. Approximately what percentage of US
c. positive association. consumers eat home-cooked meals at least 3
d. habitual reinforcement. times per week?
a. 20
b. 40
c. 60
d. 80
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11. All of the following are examples of functional 18. Which of the following is NOT classified as a
foods EXCEPT macronutrient?
a. tomatoes. a. Fat
b. regular oatmeal. b. Protein
c. regular white bread. c. Calcium
d. calcium-fortified juice. d. Carbohydrate
12. What is the term that defines foods that contain 19. Which of the following is an example of a
nonnutrient substances whose known action in macronutrient?
the body is to promote well-being to a greater a. Protein
extent than that contributed by the food’s b. Calcium
nutrients? c. Vitamin C
a. Fortified foods d. Vitamin D
b. Enriched foods
c. Functional foods 20. Which of the following is classified as a
d. Health-enhancing foods micronutrient?
a. Iron
13. Nonnutrient substances found in plant foods that b. Protein
show biological activity in the body are c. Alcohol
commonly known as d. Carbohydrate
a. folionutrients.
b. inorganic fibers. 21. Which of the following is an organic compound?
c. phytochemicals. a. Salt
d. phyllochemicals. b. Water
c. Calcium
14. By chemical analysis, what nutrient is present in d. Vitamin C
the highest amounts in most foods?
a. Fats 22. An essential nutrient is one that cannot be
b. Water a. found in food.
c. Proteins b. degraded by the body.
d. Carbohydrates c. made in sufficient quantities by the body.
d. used to synthesize other compounds in the
15. Approximately how much water (lbs) would be body.
found in a 120-lb person?
a. 12 23. Which of the following most accurately defines
b. 24 the term organic?
c. 36 a. Products sold at health food stores
d. 72 b. Products grown without use of pesticides
c. Foods having superior nutrient qualities
16. Which of the following is NOT one of the six d. Substances with carbon-carbon or carbon-
classes of nutrients? hydrogen bonds
a. Fiber
b. Protein 24. Which of the following is an organic nutrient?
c. Minerals a. Fat
d. Vitamins b. Water
c. Oxygen
17. A nutrient needed by the body and that must be d. Calcium
supplied by foods is termed a(n)
a. neutraceutical. 25. Approximately how many nutrients are
b. metabolic unit. considered indispensable in the diet?
c. organic nutrient. a. 15
d. essential nutrient. b. 25
c. 40
d. 55
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26. Which of the following cannot add fat to the 34. A normal half-cup vegetable portion weighs
body? approximately how many grams?
a. Alcohol a. 5
b. Proteins b. 50
c. Carbohydrates c. 100
d. Inorganic nutrients d. 200
27. Which of the following is an example of a 35. A weight reduction regimen calls for a daily
micronutrient? intake of 1400 kcalories, which includes 30 g of
a. Fat fat. Approximately what percentage of the total
b. Protein energy is contributed by fat?
c. Vitamin C a. 8.5
d. Carbohydrate b. 15
c. 19
28. Which of the following nutrients does not yield d. 25.5
energy during its metabolism?
a. Fat 36. A diet provides a total of 2200 kcalories, of
b. Proteins which 40% of the energy is from fat and 20%
c. Vitamins from protein. How many grams of carbohydrate
d. Carbohydrates are contained in the diet?
a. 220
29. How much energy is required to raise the b. 285
temperature of one kilogram (liter) of water c. 440
1° C? d. 880
a. 10 calories
b. 1 kilocalorie 37. What is the kcalorie value of a meal supplying
c. 10,000 calories 110 g of carbohydrates, 25 g of protein, 20 g of
d. 1000 kilocalories fat, and 5 g of alcohol?
a. 160
30. Gram for gram, which of the following provides b. 345
the most energy? c. 560
a. Fats d. 755
b. Alcohol
c. Proteins 38. Which of the following nutrient sources yields
d. Carbohydrates more than 4 kcalories per gram?
a. Plant fats
31. Food energy is commonly expressed in kcalories b. Plant proteins
and in c. Animal proteins
a. kilojoules. d. Plant carbohydrates
b. kilograms.
c. kilometers. 39. Which of the following is a result of the
d. kilonewtons. metabolism of energy nutrients?
a. Energy is released
32. International units of energy are expressed in b. Body fat increases
a. newtons. c. Energy is destroyed
b. calories. d. Body water decreases
c. kilojoules.
d. kilocalories.
41. In the body, the chemical energy in food can be 49. Your friend Carrie took a daily supplement of
converted to any of the following EXCEPT vitamin C and stated that she felt a lot better. Her
a. heat energy. experience is best described as a(n)
b. light energy. a. anecdote.
c. electrical energy. b. blind experiment.
d. mechanical energy. c. nutritional genomic.
d. case-control experience.
42. When consumed in excess, all of the following
can be converted to body fat and stored EXCEPT 50. The study of how a person’s genes interact with
a. sugar. nutrients is termed
b. corn oil. a. genetic counseling.
c. alcohol. b. nutritional genomics.
d. vitamin C. c. genetic metabolomics.
d. nutritional nucleic acid pool.
43. How many vitamins are known to be required in
the diet of human beings? 51. What is the meaning of a double-blind
a. 5 experiment?
b. 8 a. Both subject groups take turns getting each
c. 10 treatment
d. 13 b. Neither subjects nor researchers know which
subjects are in the control or experimental
44. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic group
of the vitamins? c. Neither group of subjects knows whether
a. Essential they are in the control or experimental
b. Inorganic group, but the researchers do know
c. Destructible d. Both subject groups know whether they are
d. kCalorie-free in the control or experimental group, but the
researchers do not know
45. Which of the following is a feature of the
minerals as nutrients? 52. In the scientific method, a tentative solution to a
a. They are organic problem is called the
b. They yield 4 kcalories per gram a. theory.
c. Some become dissolved in body fluids b. prediction.
d. Some may be destroyed during cooking c. hypothesis.
d. correlation.
46. How many minerals are known to be required in
the diet of human beings?
a. 6
b. 12
c. 16
d. 24
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53. Among the following, which is the major 59. You have been asked to help a top nutrition
weakness of a laboratory-based study? researcher conduct human experiments on
a. The costs are usually high vitamin C. As the subjects walk into the
b. It is difficult to replicate the findings laboratory, you distribute all the vitamin C pill
c. The results cannot be applied to human bottles to the girls and all the placebo pill bottles
beings to the boys. The researcher instantly informs you
d. Experimental variables cannot be easily that there are two errors in your research
controlled practice. What steps should you have done
differently?
54. What is the benefit of using controls in an a. Given all the boys the vitamin C and the
experiment? girls the placebo, and told them what they
a. The size of the groups can be very large were getting
b. The subjects do not know anything about the b. Distributed the bottles randomly,
experiment randomized the subjects, and told them what
c. The subjects who are treated are balanced they were getting
against the placebos c. Told the subjects which group they were in,
d. The subjects are similar in all respects and prevented yourself from knowing the
except for the treatment being tested contents of the pill bottles
d. Prevented yourself from knowing what was
55. What is the benefit of using a large sample size in the pill bottles, and distributed the bottles
in an experiment? randomly to the subjects
a. Chance variation is ruled out
b. There will be no placebo effect 60. Overeating and gaining body weight is an
c. The experiment will be double-blind example of a
d. The control group will be similar to the a. variable effect.
experimental group b. positive correlation.
c. negative correlation.
56. A clinical trial must involve d. randomization effect.
a. tissue cells in culture.
b. rats or mice as subjects. 61. An increase in exercise accompanied by a
c. human beings as subjects. decrease in body weight is an example of a
d. computer modeling to design the study. a. variable effect.
b. positive correlation.
57. What is the benefit of using placebos in an c. negative correlation.
experiment? d. randomization effect.
a. All subjects are similar
b. All subjects receive a treatment 62. Before publication in a reputable journal, the
c. Neither subjects nor researchers know who findings of a research study must undergo
is receiving treatment scrutiny by experts in the field according to a
d. One group of subjects receives a treatment process known as
and the other group receives nothing a. peer review.
b. cohort review.
58. In nutrition research, observations of the c. intervention examination.
quantities and types of foods eaten by groups of d. double-blind examination.
people and the health status of those groups are
known as 63. Which of the following is NOT a typical part of
a. case-control studies. a research article?
b. epidemiological studies. a. References
c. human intervention trials. b. Speculation
d. correlation-control studies. c. Introduction
d. Review of the literature
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64. All of the following sets of values are included 69. Recommended Dietary Allowances may be used
in the Dietary Reference Intakes EXCEPT to
a. AI. a. measure nutrient balance of population
b. RDA. groups.
c. EAR. b. assess dietary nutrient adequacy for
d. LUT. individuals.
c. treat persons with diet-related illnesses.
65. Which of the following is NOT a set of values d. calculate exact food requirements for most
within the Dietary Reference Intakes? individuals.
a. Adequate Intakes
b. Estimated Average Allowances 70. Recommended Dietary Allowances are based on
c. Tolerable Upper Intake Levels the
d. Recommended Dietary Allowances a. Lower Tolerable Limit.
b. Upper Tolerable Limit.
66. The smallest amount of a nutrient that, when c. Subclinical Deficiency Value.
consumed over a prolonged period, maintains a d. Estimated Average Requirement.
specific function is called the nutrient
a. allowance. 71. The amount of a nutrient that meets the needs of
b. requirement. about 98% of a population is termed the
c. tolerable limit. a. Adequate Intake.
d. adequate intake. b. Daily Recommended Value.
c. Tolerable Upper Intake Level.
67. If a group of people consumed an amount of d. Recommended Dietary Allowance.
protein equal to the average requirement for
their population group, what percentage would 72. The RDA (Recommended Dietary Allowances)
receive insufficient amounts? for nutrients are generally
a. 2 a. more than twice as high as anyone needs.
b. 33 b. the minimum amounts that average people
c. 50 need.
d. 98 c. designed to meet the needs of almost all
healthy people.
68. A health magazine contacted you for your expert d. designed to prevent deficiency diseases in
opinion on what measure best describes the half the population.
amounts of nutrients that should be consumed by
the population. Your reply should be: 73. How are the RDA for almost all vitamin and
a. The Dietary Reference Intakes because they mineral intakes set?
are a set of nutrient intake values for healthy a. Low, to reduce the risk of toxicity
people in the United States and Canada. b. High, to cover virtually all healthy
b. The Tolerable Upper Intake levels because individuals
they are the maximum daily amount of a c. Extremely high, to cover every single person
nutrient that appears safe for most healthy d. At the mean, to cover most healthy
people. individuals
c. The Estimated Average Requirements
because they reflect the average daily 74. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the
amount of a nutrient that will maintain a Adequate Intake (AI) and the Recommended
specific function in half of the healthy Dietary Allowance (RDA)?
people of a population. a. Both values exceed the average
d. The Recommended Dietary Allowances requirements
because they represent the average daily b. AI values are more tentative than RDA
amount of a nutrient considered adequate to values
meet the known nutrient needs of practically c. The percentage of people covered is known
all healthy people. for both values
d. Both values may serve as nutrient intake
goals for individuals
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75. All of the following features are shared by the 79. What does the Tolerable Upper Intake Level of a
RDA and the AI EXCEPT nutrient represent?
a. both are included in the DRI. a. The maximum amount allowed for
b. both serve as nutrient intake goals for fortifying a food
individuals. b. A number calculated by taking twice the
c. neither covers 100% of the population’s RDA or three times the AI
nutrient needs. c. The maximum allowable amount available
d. neither is useful for evaluating nutrition in supplement form
programs for groups of people. d. The maximum amount from all sources that
appears safe for most healthy people
76. Which of the following is a purpose of both the
Recommended Dietary Allowance and Adequate 80. What set of values is used to recommend the
Intake? average kcalorie intake that maintains population
a. Setting nutrient goals for individuals groups in energy balance?
b. Identifying toxic intakes of nutrients a. Estimated Energy Requirement
c. Restoring health of malnourished b. Adequate Average Requirement
individuals c. Recommended Dietary Allowance
d. Developing nutrition programs for d. Acceptable Energy Distribution Range
schoolchildren
81. The percentages of kcalorie intakes for protein,
77. Bob consumes about 2500 kcalories per day, fat, and carbohydrate that are thought to reduce
which is apportioned as 150 g of fat, 140 g of the risk of chronic diseases are termed the
carbohydrate, and 150 g of protein. What would a. Estimated Energy Requirements.
be the appropriate revisions to help Bob adjust b. Tolerable Range of Kilocalorie Intakes.
his nutrient intake so that it matches the c. Estimated Energy Nutrient
Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Ranges? Recommendations.
a. 70 g fat, 156 g protein, 313 g carbohydrate d. Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution
b. 140 g fat, 150 g protein, 150 g carbohydrate Ranges.
c. 500 g fat, 750 g protein, 1250 g
carbohydrate 82. What is the AMDR for carbohydrate?
d. 10 g fat, 20 g protein, 45 g carbohydrate a. 5-10%
b. 15-25%
78. Which of the following represents a rationale for c. 30-40%
DRI energy recommendations? d. 45-65%
a. Because protein is an energy nutrient, the
figures for energy intake are set in 83. Which of the following figures falls within the
proportion to protein intake carbohydrate range of the AMDR?
b. Because a large number of people are a. 35%
overweight, the figures are set to induce a b. 50%
gradual weight loss in most individuals c. 70%
c. Because the energy needs within each d. 90%
population group show little variation, the
figures are set to meet the needs of almost 84. What is the AMDR for protein?
all individuals a. 10-35%
d. Because a margin of safety would result in b. 40-45%
excess energy intake for a large number of c. 50-65%
people, the figures are set at the average d. 70-85%
energy intake
85. What is the upper range of fat intake in the
AMDR?
a. 20%
b. 25%
c. 35%
d. 50%
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86. What is the AMDR for fat? 91. As a registered dietitian at Jones Hospital, you
a. 10-30% are instructed to write a policy statement on
b. 20-35% nutrition assessment procedures for all new
c. 40-55% patients. Which of the following are the most
d. 60-75% useful parameters for the nutrition assessment of
individuals?
87. If a person consumed the upper AMDR limit for a. Diet recall, food likes and dislikes, allergies,
protein as part of a diet providing 2500 kcalories, favorite family recipes
approximately how many grams of protein b. Anthropometric data, physical examinations,
would be ingested? food likes and dislikes, family tree
a. 41 c. Diet record that includes what the patient
b. 63 usually eats, which will provide sufficient
c. 135 information
d. 219 d. Historical information, anthropometric data,
physical examinations, laboratory tests
88. Which statement about the recommended
nutrient intakes is FALSE? 92. Which of the following is an anthropometric
a. The recommendations also apply to sick measure?
people a. Body weight
b. The recommendations are designed to be b. Blood pressure
met through intake of foods and not c. Blood iron level
supplements d. Food intake information
c. It is difficult and unnecessary to meet the
recommended intakes for all nutrients each 93. Inspection of hair, eyes, skin, and posture is part
day of the nutrition assessment component known as
d. The recommendations are neither minimum a. diet history.
requirements nor necessarily optimal intakes b. anthropometrics.
for everybody c. biochemical testing.
d. physical examination.
89. The Dietary Reference Intakes may be used to
a. treat people with diet-related disorders. 94. Which of the following is used to determine the
b. assess adequacy of all required nutrients. presence of abnormal functions inside the body
c. plan and evaluate diets for healthy people. due to a nutrient deficiency?
d. assess adequacy of only vitamins and a. Diet history
minerals. b. Laboratory tests
c. Body weight loss
90. Which of the following is used to detect nutrient d. Physical examination
deficiencies?
a. Assessment techniques 95. Which of the following represents the usual
b. Nutrient stages identification sequence of stages in the development of a
c. Overt symptoms identification nutrient deficiency resulting from inadequate
d. Outward manifestations assessment intake?
a. Declining nutrient stores, abnormal
functions within the body, and overt signs
b. Abnormal functions within the body,
declining nutrient stores, and overt signs
c. Abnormal functions within the body, overt
signs, and declining nutrient stores
d. Declining nutrient stores, overt signs, and
abnormal functions within the body
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96. Which of the following would most likely lead to 103. Which of the following does NOT describe a
a primary nutrient deficiency? national trend in eating habits of Americans?
a. Inadequate nutrient intake a. We eat larger portions
b. Reduced nutrient absorption b. We snack more frequently
c. Increased nutrient excretion c. We eat more high-fiber foods
d. Increased nutrient destruction d. We eat more meals away from home
97. What type of deficiency is caused by inadequate 104. The 5 most common causes of death today in the
absorption of a nutrient? United States include all of the following
a. Primary EXCEPT
b. Clinical a. stroke.
c. Secondary b. cancer.
d. Subclinical c. suicide.
d. heart disease.
98. A subclinical nutrient deficiency is defined as
one that 105. Of the ten leading causes of illness and death,
a. shows overt signs. how many are associated directly with nutrition?
b. is in the early stages. a. 1
c. shows resistance to treatment. b. 4
d. is similar to a secondary deficiency. c. 7
d. 10
99. Which of the following is an overt symptom of
iron deficiency? 106. Which of the following leading causes of death
a. Anemia in the U.S. does NOT bear a relationship to diet?
b. Headaches a. Cancer
c. Skin dryness b. Heart disease
d. Decreased red blood cell count c. Diabetes mellitus
d. Pneumonia and influenza
100. To identify early-stage malnutrition, a health
professional would use which of the following 107. Factors known to be related to a disease but not
parameters? proven to be causal are called
a. Laboratory tests a. risk factors.
b. Anthropometric data b. genetic factors.
c. Physical exam results c. degenerative factors.
d. Review of dietary intake data d. environmental factors.
101. What entity coordinates nutrition-related 108. Which of the following statements defines the
research activities of federal agencies? association between a risk factor and the
a. U.S. Public Health Service development of a disease?
b. Food and Drug Administration a. All people with the risk factor will develop
c. Dietary Reference Intakes committee the disease
d. The National Nutrition Monitoring program b. The absence of a risk factor guarantees
freedom from the disease
102. The goal of Healthy People is to c. The more risk factors for a disease, the
a. establish the DRI. greater the chance of developing that disease
b. identify national trends in food d. The presence of a factor such as heredity can
consumption. be modified to lower the risk of
c. identify leading causes of death in the degenerative diseases
United States.
d. set goals for the nation’s health over the next 109. Which of the following factors makes the
10 years. greatest contribution to deaths in the United
States?
a. Guns
b. Alcohol
c. Tobacco
d. Automobiles
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114. Which of the following individuals is most likely
110. What single behavior contributes to the most to possess the least amount of nutrition training?
deaths in the United States? a. Dietetic technician
a. Poor diet b. Registered dietician
b. Tobacco use c. Certified nutritionist
c. Alcohol intake d. Dietetic technician, registered
d. Sexual activity
115. For which of the following titles, by definition,
111. Who would be the most appropriate person to must the individual be college educated and pass
consult regarding nutrition information? a national examination administered by the
a. Chiropractor Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics?
b. Medical doctor a. Medical doctor
c. Registered dietitian b. Registered dietician
d. Health food store manager c. Certified nutritionist
d. Certified nutrition therapist
112. All of the following are minimum requirements
for becoming a registered dietitian EXCEPT 116. Which of the following best describes a college-
a. earning an undergraduate degree. educated nutrition and food specialist who is
b. completing up to a three-week clinical qualified to make evaluations of the nutritional
internship or the equivalent. health of people?
c. completing approximately 60 semester hours a. Registered dietitian
in nutrition and food science. b. Licensed nutritionist
d. passing a national examination administered c. Master of nutrient utilization
by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. d. Doctor of food and nutritional sciences
113. Which of the following describes the legal 117. A person who assists registered dietitians has the
limitations, if any, for a person who disseminates formal title of
dietary advice to the public? a. dietetic assistant.
a. The title “dietitian” can be used by anyone b. nutrition assistant.
in all states c. dietetic technician.
b. The title “nutritionist” can be used by d. nutrition technician.
anyone in all states
c. A license to practice as a nutritionist or 118. All of the following are recognized, credible
dietitian is required by some states sources of nutrition information EXCEPT
d. A license to practice as a nutritionist or a. Who’s Who in Nutrition.
dietitian is mandatory in all states b. the Food and Drug Administration.
c. the United States Department of Agriculture.
d. the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
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Answer Key (ANS = correct answer, REF = page reference, DIF = difficulty, OBJ = learning objective)
Multiple Choice
1. ANS: c REF: 3 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.0
2. ANS: b REF: 4 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.1
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3. ANS: d REF: 3 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.0
4. ANS: d REF: 5 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.1
5. ANS: c REF: 5 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.1
6. ANS: a REF: 4 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.1
7. ANS: d REF: 5 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.1
8. ANS: a REF: 5 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.1
9. ANS: c REF: 5 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.1
10. ANS: d REF: 5 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.1
11. ANS: c REF: 6 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.1
12. ANS: c REF: 6 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.1
13. ANS: c REF: 6 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.1
14. ANS: b REF: 6 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.2
15. ANS: d REF: 6-7 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.2
16. ANS: a REF: 6 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.2
17. ANS: d REF: 8 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.2
18. ANS: c REF: 8 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.2
19. ANS: a REF: 8 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.2
20. ANS: a REF: 8|11 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.2
21. ANS: d REF: 7 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.2
22. ANS: c REF: 8 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.2
23. ANS: d REF: 7 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.2
24. ANS: a REF: 7 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.2
25. ANS: c REF: 8 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.2
26. ANS: d REF: 8-9|10 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.2
27. ANS: c REF: 8 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.2
28. ANS: c REF: 8 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.2
29. ANS: b REF: 8 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.2
30. ANS: a REF: 8 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.2
31. ANS: a REF: 9 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.2
32. ANS: c REF: 9 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.2
33. ANS: c REF: 9 DIF: Knowledge-level OBJ: 1.2
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40. ANS: c REF: 10 DIF: Application-level OBJ: 1.2
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the rich stillness, touched and oppressed his imagination. Great men and
proud women had passed in sumptuous pageantry through the walls of that
noble chamber; and Trafford felt their presence, and strove to exorcise them
with the fumes of a cigarette. But the impalpable dust of centuries seemed
to impregnate the air, and by-gone monarchs looked askance at him from
their dim gold frames, in a scornful wonder at the American interloper who
sat so carelessly in the seat of kings. He rose, impatient of their glances, and
walked to the window. Snow was falling. The sun that had graced and
greeted the new-crowned Queen had sunk beneath the rugged outline of the
encircling mountains; the sky, which had been of no uncertain blue, was a
nondescript monotone weeping a white haze of crystalline tears. His
thoughts harked back to the ashen face and sad eyes of the new-crowned
Queen. Why had she not grasped the fact that Karl's immurement in the
Eisenmädchen was a humane act of rescue, not a piece of callous cruelty?
She herself had experienced the same hiding-place under the same
innocuous conditions, and yet it did not seem to have occurred to her that
the spikes might still be reposing at the bottom of his overcoat pocket. That
the others should have failed to suspect the truth was only natural. That they
would be angry on discovering it, was probable—but for that he cared not
one jot.
What troubled his awakening conscience was, that good men and true
must go down before peace reigned again in the troubled monarchy of
Grimland.
After a few more minutes of such meditation, he made his way through
the Rubens-saal in the direction of the private apartments. In the corridor
leading to the Queen's chamber stood the officer on guard, and talking to
him was no less a personage than Von Hügelweiler.
"My orders are precise," the former was saying. "Her Majesty is resting
and will see no one."
"It would be no use, Captain," retorted the other. "The Queen is resting
and must not be disturbed."
Von Hügelweiler's disappointment showed itself plainly in his
crestfallen air.
"I want access to her Majesty," he said doggedly. "It is true that by
admitting me you risk offending the Queen, but by not admitting me you
offend me for a certainty."
"You may be sorrier still, if you persist," said the Captain darkly,
detecting, as he fancied, symptoms of wavering on the other's part. "We
move in strange times, Lieutenant, and my goodwill is better worth having
than my enmity."
"I wish to see her Majesty," he said, addressing the lieutenant on guard,
and completely ignoring Von Hügelweiler.
The Lieutenant's face was a picture of puzzled dismay. His orders were
to conduct Trafford to the royal apartments as soon as he presented himself.
To all others he was to give the message that her Majesty was exceedingly
fatigued and would on no account see anyone. After a moment's
embarrassed indecision,—during which he felt Von Hügelweiler's eyes
absolutely scorching him,—he bade Trafford follow, and turning his back
on the furious Captain, led the way down the long corridor. Arriving at a
doorway concealed by a heavy curtain, he pushed open a massive oak portal
and signalled Trafford to enter.
The chamber in which the latter now found himself was lofty, smelling
of incense, and lit by lamps hanging from a frescoed ceiling. At the far end
was an altar garnished with many candles and a silver crucifix.
Trafford advanced towards the new Queen, who was standing before the
steps of the altar in the company of a priest. The chapel was dark, for the
stained-glass windows shut out most of the remaining light, and the hanging
lamps were little more than points of ruby flame. And yet he could see that
Gloria's face was still of an even pallor, and that her eyes were red from
recent tears.
"I am a woman of my word, you see," she went on in dull tones. "I
promised to marry you under certain conditions, and, those conditions being
fulfilled, I waste no time."
"You are carrying out the letter of the contract," returned Trafford, "but
are you observing the spirit? I did not bargain for a tearful bride."
"But not the cause that made them flow. You wept because you are a
woman, and the woman who regards even the formula of marriage as a little
matter has yet to see the light of day. And you wept because you are not
sure which thing conscience commands—the violation of a contract or the
taking of false vows."
"You are strangely wise to-day," she said with a faint smile. "I did not
know such intuition lurked in that wild brain of yours."
"Nor would it affect me if they were. But the State would never sanction
my marriage with a commoner."
"I have asked myself that question, and the answer is that you find me
here. My word is pledged."
"I will not ask you if I am right," pursued Trafford, "for I read
acquiescence in those tear-spoiled eyes. But I will say one thing more: as
Queen of Grimland your marriage to me will be null and void. What if you
are deposed from your sovereignty, and became again Gloria von
Schattenberg, the exile?"
"But Karl was put into the Eisenmädchen," she protested wonderingly.
"I—yes. But you had unscrewed all the spikes. The Maiden was as
harmless as an unfanged snake."
"I put those spikes in my overcoat pocket," said Trafford slowly. "They
are still—in my overcoat pocket."
For a dazed moment Gloria stood staring at him. Then she reeled—
literally—grasping at the altar rails for support.
"You put him into the Iron Maiden—to save his life?" she gasped.
"That was my rough idea. You see, I am an American, and I hate killing
things—especially brave things. There are plenty of men I would kill in the
heat of battle—one or two, perhaps, whom I would kill without much heat,
but Karl,—whatever his deeds or misdeeds,—was playing the man that
night in the Palace yard, and I would sooner have cut off my right hand then
have done him an injury. Forgive me, your Majesty, for I served you badly.
Providence, which gave me a fair share of muscle and brute courage, was
stinting to me in the matter of logic. I should have been logical and replaced
the spikes in the Eisenmädchen."
"Herr Trafford!"
A hand was laid on Trafford's arm, and in the scanty light of the
shadowy chapel the American found himself looking into eyes bright with
tears, but tears not of sorrow or vexation, but of happiness and vast relief.
"Oh, what a weight you have taken from off my heart—it was heavier
than I could bear," she murmured. "I felt like a murderess, a guilty creature
who had risen through blood to the summit of her base ambitions."
"Then I am forgiven?"
"There is nothing to forgive. You have helped me and served me with
your splendid impetuosity and your fearless resource. A Grimlander would
have slain Karl, and crowned his service with a deed of shame. You were
illogical—and I—I almost love you for your noble lack of logic."
She broke off suddenly, and smiling upon him one of her rarest smiles,
she added: "Yes, George Trafford, I will marry you, and if the Queen of
Grimland cannot wed an American, then I will no longer be Queen of
Grimland."
Trafford gazed into the pale, brave face as he had never gazed at any
living thing. His breath caught with a short gasp. A strange fire had sprung
to quivering life in his bosom; a wild march was pealing in his ravished
ears. His feet were no longer on the chequered marble pavement of the
Chapel Royal, but somewhere in the fine regions of rolling planets and
shimmering nebulae. It was no mere human being who bent over that sweet
young face and kissed the warm tears from the drooping eyelids as he
breathed the one word "Gloria" in an echo of long-drawn sound, but a demi-
god, an heroic anachronism with the passions of Phoebus in his kindling
soul.
"I thought love was worship," he said, as he strained the slim form to
him. "So it is, and something more—something infinitely and deliciously
more."
But again he kissed her, and this time gently on the brow.
"I was forgetting all things save one," he said, "and that is that you love
me."
"And that contents you?" she demanded, raising her eyebrows in well-
feigned astonishment.
"It ought not to, of course," he said with wrinkled brow. "I ought to
want all or nothing. But I would be content if it were even less you gave,
for in the dim light of this ancient chamber I seem to see the workings of
Fate."
"If you are content to do so," he returned gravely, "knowing that Karl is
alive and may prevail, and that in that event no Parliament will trouble to
undo what the good priest does this afternoon."
"I, too, believe in Fate," she said softly, after a pause; and then, slipping
her arm into his, "Father Ambrose, you have been summoned here for a
purpose. Fulfil that purpose."
CHAPTER TWENTY
BERNHARDT DISTURBED
While the woman whom he had helped to a throne was being secretly
married to George Trafford, Father Bernhardt was sitting alone in his
private apartments in the Neptunburg. The room he had chosen for his use
was a small chamber on the second floor, overlooking the courtyard. The
blinds were drawn, the electric light was burning, and the ex-priest was
seated in a comfortable arm-chair reading the poems of Paul Verlaine. At
his side were a wine-glass and a big carafe containing a pale green viscous
fluid. He seemed to be enjoying his relaxation, for a smile constantly flitted
across his face, and as some mordant line appealed more especially to his
grim humour he would repeat it several times out loud in manifest
appreciation. From time to time he sipped the fluid at his elbow, and it was
remarkable that each time he did so he cast a quick look behind him as if
fully expecting to see someone.
A rap at the door brought a slight frown to his brow, and the knock had
to be repeated before he gave the necessary permission to enter. The
intruder was Von Hügelweiler.
"Karl is alive!"
"So Gottfried said. The Iron Maiden seems to have grown humane in
her old age."
"The Iron Maiden has not grown humane," he said, "but there is a traitor
in our midst."
Bernhardt sipped pensively.
"Very!" echoed Hügelweiler scornfully. "Before Karl was put into the
Eisenmädchen someone had removed the spikes. The pretended execution
was nothing more nor less than a scheme to save the King's life."
"That is one piece of news!" he cried irritably. "It does not seem to
move you very deeply; perhaps my second item will affect you more. The
Queen has just gone through the ceremony of marriage with Trafford the
American!"
"It is scandalous!" he protested, almost with tears in his eyes. "The thing
must be annulled. The Queen of Grimland must not wed a commoner, a
foreign adventurer, a man who at a crisis turns traitor and saves the
dethroned King's life."
"By the way," he asked, "how did you find all this out?"
The question let loose a fresh flood of indignation from the Captain. In
tones of choking wrath he told how he had been forbidden the royal
presence, and how Trafford had been accorded instant admission.
"That was too much for a man of my kidney," he went on. "I brushed
aside the young fool who was doing duty on guard, and I followed this
American pig down the corridor. I found myself in the chapel, and I hid
myself in the gloom behind a pew. Then I overheard things—pretty things,
pretty speeches, tales of the American's mercy, how he had saved the King's
life because he disliked killing a brave man. Then these two,—the Queen of
Grimland and the traitor who should have been immured in the Strafeburg,
—kissed each other and were made man and wife by a damned old fool in a
cassock."
Again Bernhardt sipped. Then he leaned back, and a slow smile spread
over his face.
"I loved Karl," returned Bernhardt, unmoved, "I loved and hated him.
You,—not being an absintheur,—cannot understand the curious mental
pose that loves and hates the same being at the same time. Also I love Herr
Trafford. He got me out of the Strafeburg."
"Then the truth must not be known," he said, between his yawns.
"But it shall be known!" cried the soldier angrily. "I shall proclaim it
myself from the housetops. The mad American must be whipped out of the
country."
"Captain von Hügelweiler," said the ex-priest solemnly, "just now I was
enjoying two things: some deliciously bitter poetry and some deliciously
bitter liquid. At the present moment I am incapacitated by your disturbing
presence from enjoying either. Do I make myself plain?"
"A fine time for dissipation!" he said, as a parting shaft. "The fortunes
of the country are at stake, and Bernhardt, Father Bernhardt, the people's
leader, the man of the hour, swills absinthe and absorbs the pernicious
writings of a decadent poetaster."
In a flash the ex-priest was on his feet, with blazing eyes and an air of
almost terrible menace. Von Hügelweiler thought he had been talking to a
sodden drunkard. He found himself confronted by the embodiment of
masterful and savage energy.
The Captain shrugged his shoulders weakly. Despite his own strong
feelings, the other's imperiousness cowed him.
"Go!" continued Bernhardt, pointing to the door. "Go, and hold your
peace! Tell nobody this tale of Karl's escape and who contrived it. Tell no
one this tale of the secret marriage in the Chapel Royal. I forbid you to
speak. The nation's destinies are in my keeping, not yours."
Von Hügelweiler went to the door, smarting under the lash of the
tongue.
And with an oath on his lips, and wrath and rebellion in his heart, Von
Hügelweiler flung himself from the ex-priest's chamber.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
DREAMS
"Sweeter also than the honey and the honeycomb," he murmured. "A
letter from dreamland, Rudolf! Tell me, Rudolf, do waiters dream?"
"Not often, Excellency. They are too busy by day. Once I dreamed that I
was appointed headwaiter at the Concordia."
"Ah! you are ambitious, Rudolf. My dreams are less exalted. I only
dreamed that a certain gnadiges fräulein did more than 'almost' love me;
that she even cared for me 'more than the others.' It was not a bad dream,
Rudolf," he added, casting his eyes over the missive, "and the letter is not a
bad awakening."
At eleven o'clock Trafford was waiting outside a big corner shop, whose
ample windows revealed an alluring wealth of edible magnificence. Hardly
had the church clock finished striking when a young woman drew near. The
combination of blue veil and Russian sables was one Trafford had seen
before, and being in uniform he saluted.
"We must meet somewhere," she returned, and there was a half-
mischievous glint in the eyes that looked back into his eyes as she added:
—"after what happened yesterday. It's no good meeting at the Neptunburg
—a palace has all the luxuries of an ideal home, except privacy. This is one
of the places where I was known in my days of exile, and they will serve us
chocolate and éclairs in a private room."
"Do you know I dreamed of you last night," began Trafford, as soon as
they were alone in a cosy little room at the back.
"Again, naturally."
"I mean," said Trafford tentatively, "you loved me 'more than the
others.'"
Trafford winced.
"The public will say little, but it will do a good deal," said Gloria
grimly. "It is true we are moving in a time of great changes; it is true that
for the moment you are a very popular person. But it is also true that I am a
Queen and you a commoner, and Grimlanders like their Royalty undiluted.
If we proclaimed ourselves man and wife we should be wise to board the
Orient express at Gleis, and steam westward to Ostend or eastward to
Constantinople."
Gloria's eyes fell before his steadfast gaze. Her face softened; it
saddened under a wave of emotion—an emotion, the instant expression of
which, though easily attributable to her actress-temperament, was
nevertheless based on something far deeper.
"I wonder if I am a hard woman," she began, still looking down. "Years
of exile, of earning one's living on the variety stage, striving—surely these
are not softening influences." She paused for him to add some sympathetic
word. Whether he intended to do so or not, he forgot it on meeting the eyes
that now were looking him through and through, as she continued: "But I do
not unsay what I said yesterday! I really like you, immensely—and perhaps
I almost love you."
Trafford took her hand and kissed it rapturously; she almost snatched it
away, and there was a ring of steel in the tones that now declared:
"But I have tasted power, and now that the horror of Karl's death is no
longer on my conscience, I wish to be the unopposed ruler of my country."
"Even though the process of establishing your rule costs the lives of
brave men?"
Again she dropped her eyes—was silenced. She sipped her chocolate.
When she spoke, it was quietly and with absolute conviction.
"If I had known what Father Bernhardt told us, that Karl was really a
humane man and was absolutely innocent of the Archbishop's death, I don't
believe I should have headed a rebellion against him. But—rightly or
wrongly—the rebellion has succeeded and the seat of government is mine.
To falter now would be to cause more misery and bloodshed than to go on.
The people have declared against Karl, and Karl they will not have at any
price. If I were to abdicate, some other adventurer would take my place. To
withdraw myself from Grimland now would be to leave my friends to the
certain reprisals of their enemies."
"Of course, I'm not heartless," she said,—and she smiled as a coquette
might smile on being told that her flirtations were dangerous,—"and of
course, I like you very much, only you miss the whole gist of my argument.
If we announce our marriage now we shall be drummed out of the country.
That might suit you, but it doesn't harmonise with the ideals that have been
instilled into me from my earliest years. If you accompany me in this
projected expedition to Weissheim,—not as my husband, but as my officer,
—if you exert your skill and valour on my behalf and help to capture Karl
and win me back my old home—the Marienkastel—there is no knowing
what the enthusiasm of the Grimlander would not do for you. If we return
as conquerers, what more fitting crown to our pageant than the union of the
vindicated Queen and her triumphant General?"
Trafford gazed at the mantled cheek and the light of expectancy that
shone in her eyes now. Certain words of Saunders' came back, ringing in his
ears: "When you really fall in love you will refuse to take 'No' for an
answer. In the words of the pre-historic doggerel, you will 'try, try again.'"
"I see," he said, "I have done something, but I have not done enough. I
will accompany you to Weissheim—a unit of your force—and I will do my
best to serve your cause. What has passed between us is nothing, must make
no difference in our relations, is merely the burlesque conclusion of a
burlesque compact. I thought I saw the working of Fate in the incensed
gloom of the Chapel Royal. The next few weeks will prove me an idle
visionary or a true seer." He paused. "Which do you wish me to prove?"
She rose to her feet, opened her sable cloak, and disengaged a pearl
brooch from her neck. Bending over him so that her breath swept his cheek,
she fastened the trinket to the lapel of his green tunic, and finished his
subjugation with a long look into his eyes.
Outside the confectioner's Gloria let down her veil again, and turned her
steps towards the Neptunburg. Trafford, at her request, took the opposite
direction. His habitually fierce features wore a grimmer look than ever,—
for his brows were knit and his teeth set,—and there was a dangerous gleam
in his grey eyes. He was the prey to a host of indefinable emotions, that
worked his turbulent spirit to its most aggressive mood. Disappointment, a
tinge of bitterness, coupled with a wild sense of intoxication,—caused by
the Princess's last relenting act of grace,—had strung his fine nervous
system to a point when it demanded violent action as the only possible
relief. Had he been at Harvard he would have kindled a bonfire; had Karl
been within a reasonable radius of his activity he would have headed a
cutting-out expedition to capture that unhappy monarch. As it was, he
walked fast, bending his steps unconsciously towards his hotel. The sky
showed a pale blue between the lines of house-tops, for as usual the sun was
having its morning duel with the white fog that haunts the streets of
Weidenbruck at this period of the year. The sun was winning, too,—as it
generally did for an hour or so,—and even causing the huge icicles that
hung from the eaves to drip a little at their sharp and glistening extremities.
But Trafford noted none of these things.
"I am very ill or very much too well," he said to himself, in diagnosis of
his own feverish unrest. "If I were an Elizabethan courtier I should write a
sonnet; if I were an ordinary American I should play tennis or golf. Being
neither, I am suffering the torments of a wild beast in a small cage; my
brain is bursting from enforced inaction. Saunders, who is always right,
calls me a madman, and to justify his opinion I shall probably break a shop
window in about two minutes."
"As I live, I believe they are going to attack me," he said gleefully to
himself. "No," he reflected, "the wish is father to the thought. There is not
the slightest reason why they should attack me. They are probably
respectable burghers doing a morning's shopping in the Königstrasse."
The original idea, however, fascinated him, and he stopped; the men
stopped too. He went on, and the men went on, and a backward glance told
him that they were summoning a third person from across the street, and
pointing at him as an object either of curiosity or offence. He continued his
walk with a wild hope in his heart, and in the course of a hundred yards the
hope became a certainty. A small crowd was now dogging his footsteps,
and such uncomplimentary references as "traitor," "spy" and "schweinhund"
assailed his ears. The situation would have alarmed most men, and would
have accorded even "Nervy" Trafford a certain measure of uneasiness under
ordinary conditions. But in his present state of psychical unrest the
atmosphere of danger had a marvellously relieving effect. The fever went
out of his bones, his blood slackened to a normal speed, his brain adjusted
itself to meet the crisis. He was still spoiling for a fight, but seething
pugnacity had given way to ice-cool combativeness. He walked on without
quickening his pace, and though he looked neither to right nor left, he felt
instinctively that the numbers of his retinue were swelling fast. The hum of
muttered execrations rose to a stronger note, and every yard of his progress
brought fresh idlers in his wake. From time to time he passed a policeman,
but these were gorgeously uniformed officials whose idea of upholding
civic dignity was to adopt a pose of statuesque aloofness to things human
and divine.
Presently a piece of frozen snow struck him on the nape of his neck. He
swung round in a fury, and as he did so the foremost of the pack struck his
shako from his head.
But Trafford had not lost his head, and there was a motive in his flight
that was born of quick thought and prospective vengeance rather than panic
fear. At the door of a certain wine-shop he halted breathless; a backward
glance showed his nearest pursuer fifty yards distant.
"Mein Herr?"
"Good!" said Trafford. "And are you still loyal to the good Queen
Gloria?"
"Then you will help me," said Trafford; "I am being attacked by her
enemies."
Hardly had he spoken when a wild-looking man entered the shop with
upraised bludgeon and a cry of "Traitor!" Trafford picked up a convenient
beer-can and floored the intruder with a well-directed blow.
"Close the door and shut the shutters!" called out Trafford, drawing his
sword and holding at bay a couple of ruffians who had outrun the main
body of his pursuers.