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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II: Twenty Questions and Chapter III: Takeoff Speed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what subject is Michael really asking when Noah thinks he is asking about Noah's late wife Joan?
(a) Home.
(b) Wi-Fi.
(c) Phone.
(d) Sink.

2. Noah tells Michael in Chapter II: Twenty Questions that he "spent most of [his] career working on" (68) what?
(a) Polymers.
(b) Medications.
(c) Protons.
(d) Genomes.

3. How long before the narrative present did Noah's younger sister die?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 1 year.

4. What image on Noah's phone case does he explain to Michael as "a sort of family tree" (64)?
(a) A recipe for hot chocolate.
(b) The periodic table.
(c) A map of France.
(d) The theory of relativity.

5. What image is on the front of the journal Noah buys for Michael at the airport bookstore?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A pirate.
(c) A lion.
(d) A bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Noah thinks about the fact that which group of people "used to distinguish between senectus (still lively) and decrepitus (done for)" (12)?

2. What town does Noah tell Michael has been "tossed back and forth between France and Italy for centuries" (71)?

3. Michael tells Noah that the cracked cell phone in his possession belongs to whom?

4. What is the name of Noah's younger sister?

5. From what location does the novel's protagonist, Noah, hear his wife Joan speaking in Chapter 1: The Call?

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