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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Another passenger in Richard's commute car tells him that a ship from outside the Sol system has crashed where?
(a) On Mars.
(b) On Saturn.
(c) On Venus.
(d) On Pluto.

2. Who or what is Dr. Smile?
(a) A dentist.
(b) A human psychiatrist.
(c) A tyrannical leader.
(d) An electronic psychiatrist.

3. What document is contained within "the familiar elongated blue-green envelope" (4)?
(a) Leo's draft notice.
(b) Roni's draft notice.
(c) Barney's draft notice.
(d) Emily's draft notice.

4. Who does Leo point to as "the man responsible for the seizure of this last shipment of Can-D" (17)?
(a) Ned Lark, the head of the FBI.
(b) Ned Lark, a CIA agent.
(c) Ned Lark, the chief of the UN Narcotics Bureau.
(d) Ned Lark, the U.S. Surgeon General.

5. A draft notice generally gives what amount of time before "induction" (21)?
(a) 90 days.
(b) 45 days.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 30 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Roni worked before coming to work with Barney?

2. What kind of an artist is Richard's wife Emily?

3. Where had Palmer Eldritch gone about a decade prior to the narrative's beginning?

4. Leo asserts that the Perky Pat layouts are no good to the colonists without what?

5. In what year had Richard's collection of vinyl records been melted by the heat?

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