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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 39, Popcorn, Lord Jim, Extinction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator count while in the elevator at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) The notes in the song he's whistling.
(b) The holes in the ceiling.
(c) The buttons on the elevator control panel.
(d) The coins in his pocket.

2. What time of year does the narrator say it is at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Autumn.

3. What does the narrator realize he'll continue to produce at the beginning of Chapter 27?
(a) New circuits.
(b) Memories.
(c) Escape routes.
(d) New realities.

4. What does the chubby girl begin reading in the narrator's apartment?
(a) Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
(b) Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
(c) Turgenev's On the Eve.
(d) Balzac's Chouans.

5. What does the Librarian serve at the end of each session?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Cake.
(c) Tea.
(d) Soup.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Professor say he did to the core consciousness of his test subjects?

2. Why does the shadow say the narrator can't take the Librarian to the Woods?

3. What does the narrator believe after he's slammed into the rock slab at the beginning of Chapter 23?

4. What was supposed to happen on the 2nd at noon?

5. What does the narrator's shadow say he can't do?

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