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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two, The Department of Factual Verification.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What article is the narrator currently working on?
(a) A piece about environmental safety.
(b) A piece about ducks.
(c) A piece about aids in Africa.
(d) A piece about the French elections.

2. What does the homeless person do on the narrator's train ride to work?
(a) The homeless man steals the narrator's cocaine.
(b) The homeless man steals the New York Post.
(c) The homeless man accosts the narrator.
(d) The homeless man sits on an old lady.

3. What memo, signed by the Druid's assistant, arrives in the afternoon?
(a) The French article is of the utmost importance.
(b) A Mr. Richard Fox is writing an article on the magazine.
(c) The narrator is fired, so everyone say goodbye.
(d) It is Clara's birthday and there is cake in the conference room.

4. What kind of ship does the narrator watch make its way across the river?
(a) A sailboat.
(b) A schooner.
(c) A garbage barge.
(d) A canoe.

5. What river is the narrator gazing across?
(a) The Hudson River.
(b) The East River.
(c) The Ohio River.
(d) The Mississippi River.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the New Jersey state motto?

2. What letters does the girl particularly like?

3. Of what object do the girls' eyes remind the narrator?

4. How does the narrator get the girl to dance with him longer after she's said she is tired?

5. What is the significance of the corner of Bleecker and Cornelia street?

(see the answer key)

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