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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Down: Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true about James Fulton at the beginning of the novel?
(a) He has gone into hiding.
(b) He was on his deathbed.
(c) He has been dead for 20 years.
(d) He is running for Elevator Guild president.

2. What does Chuck Gould tell Lila Mae in Down: Part One?
(a) That Lila Mae has already been fired.
(b) That Internal Affairs suspects Lila Mae of sabotaging the Fanny Briggs elevator.
(c) That Lift Magazine received the Black Box plans.
(d) That Frank Chancre was working with Johnny Shush.

3. What is Mr. Reed's connection to James Fulton?
(a) He published Fulton's earliest works on Intuitionism.
(b) He was one of Fulton's early students and converts to intuitionism.
(c) He is James Fulton's half-brother.
(d) He was Fulton's academic rival in their early days at the Institute.

4. What is unusual about the fact that James Fulton's initials were on the inspection record?
(a) Lila Mae realized that they are forged.
(b) He was head of the elevator Institute at the time.
(c) They were dated before Fulton had been born.
(d) He was dead on the date of the inspection.

5. What are the two opposing philosophies of elevator inspection?
(a) Verticality vs. Racism.
(b) Intuitionism vs. Empiricism.
(c) Conservatism vs. Liberalism.
(d) Theory vs. Fact.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jim and John work for?

2. What does Mr. Reed believe?

3. What is the attitude of Empiricists toward Intuitionism?

4. What does Mr. Reed think has happened regarding the elevator crash in Down: Part One?

5. What do the plans for the Black Box seem to be based on?

(see the answer key)

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