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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33, Rainy-Day Laundry, Car Rental, Bob Dylan.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the people in the laundromat stare at the narrator when he begins drying the clothes?
(a) The narrator clearly doesn't know how to use a dryer.
(b) The clothes are all pink.
(c) The clothes still stink from the underground.
(d) It's strange that the narrator is simply staring at the dryer.

2. What does the Colonel give the narrator to help nurse him back to health?
(a) A bandage.
(b) Tea.
(c) Soup.
(d) A blanket.

3. In what way does the Professor say the mind is like Alice in Wonderland?
(a) You can only get in by going through a narrow hole.
(b) Everything is topsy-turvy.
(c) You never know who you're going to meet.
(d) You need a special drug to get you in.

4. What does the narrator realize has hurt him when he wakes up at the beginning of Chapter 16?
(a) A skull.
(b) The winter.
(c) A beast.
(d) The sun.

5. How does the Professor explain the fact that the narrator was the only test subject that didn't die.
(a) He was the only Calcutec independent enough from the System.
(b) He was the only one who dealt with his elephant factory consciously.
(c) He was the only one whose emotional powers were strong enough.
(d) He seemed to be dividing his time between two identities in the first place.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second book the narrator reads towards the end of Chapter 15?

2. What do Junior and Big Boy tell the narrator to tell the System they were looking for?

3. What does the narrator say was his "training" for tuning in on a better life?

4. How many people are at the laundromat when the narrator arrives?

5. How does the Professor explain the narrator's memory of the dam and the king's coronation?

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