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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 was supposed to happen on the 2nd at noon?
(a) The data was supposed to reshuffle itself.
(b) The program was supposed to be cancelled.
(c) The world was supposed to end.
(d) The program was supposed to detonate.

2. What does the narrator wish he could be, in thinking about the girl in the Skyline?
(a) Young.
(b) Carefree.
(c) Oblivious.
(d) Normal.

3. How long does the Professor say the provisions will keep him alive?
(a) Three or four days.
(b) One or two weeks.
(c) One or two days.
(d) Seven or eight days.

4. What does the Colonel say will become of the narrator's shadow in Chapter 8?
(a) It will escape.
(b) It will die.
(c) It will live its own life.
(d) It will forget him.

5. What does the chubby girl say her grandfather claims will happen if the narrator doesn't get up at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) The world is going to be terminated.
(b) The world is going to be obliterated.
(c) The world is going to end.
(d) The world is going to be destroyed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing the narrator mentions when telling his shadow about his doubts?

2. What does the narrator do with the skull at the end of Chapter 37?

3. What does the Librarian compare the sounds of the accordion to at the beginning of Chapter 36?

4. What event makes the beasts all stop what they are doing and move simultaneously in one direction in Chapter 2?

5. In what way does the Professor say the mind is like Alice in Wonderland?

(see the answer key)

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