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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lost at C.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator find the environmentally conscious bumper stickers on vans ironic?
(a) Vans are all diesel.
(b) Vans are big polluters.
(c) Vans are electric.
(d) Vans run on ethanol.

2. In addition to the Statue of Liberty, what else does the narrator think is an American construct of false Utopia?
(a) NFL Football.
(b) Disneyland.
(c) Sea World.
(d) McDonald's.

3. The archaeologists may think that Colonel Sanders is a ________________.
(a) shaman.
(b) military officer.
(c) priest.
(d) guru.

4. What did Marcel Proust do to soundproof his environment?
(a) Put cotton in his ears.
(b) Wore ear muffs.
(c) Worked in a cork-lined room.
(d) Worked in a bank vault.

5. Why are the boys frightened during swimming lessons?
(a) The lake is dirty.
(b) The water is really choppy.
(c) It starts to thunder.
(d) One of the boys claims to feel the lake monster.

Short Answer Questions

1. The tendency of all New Jerseyites to long for home is called ____________________.

2. What is the picture on the side of the bus that stops beside the narrator?

3. What happened to the narrator's middle school diploma?

4. Who is in the car in front of the narrator?

5. When the narrator imagines a future archaeological dig at a lost city, what does he think the rediscovered city will be called?

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