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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 111 - 148; [Darren would help his neighbor…], The Cipher (Adam).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Darren drinking in the opening chapter?
(a) Wine.
(b) Soda.
(c) Water.
(d) Beer.

2. When were Jonathan and his first wife married?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1938.

3. What is the word for the figures Adam sees behind his eyes?
(a) Floaters.
(b) Stars.
(c) Phosphenes.
(d) Amoebas.

4. How does Jonathan see his dissertation research putting him in Ziegler’s position?
(a) He has revealed the pervasive hostility in language.
(b) He has revealed the underlying chaos in language.
(c) He has exposed the grudging psychology that uses language for its ends.
(d) He has documented the animalistic subtext to language.

5. Where does Ziegler find the pill he ultimately swallows in the story?
(a) A museum.
(b) On the street.
(c) A junk shop.
(d) A zoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What distinguishes Kenneth Erwood in Topeka?

2. What does Darren say has been hanging in space all his life?

3. How does the narrator characterize the state of American culture?

4. Where is Ziegler carted away to, at the end of the story?

5. Whose house does Adam enter at the beginning of the novel?

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