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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Cavendish recovers, he reads "Half Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery" and decides it makes a good what?
(a) Romance.
(b) Mystery.
(c) Thriller.
(d) Spy story.

2. What does the man mutter as he throws the fabricant doll into the river?
(a) "Thank goodness."
(b) "What a relief."
(c) "Best it is gone."
(d) "Good riddance."

3. What the last name of Ernie, who Cavendish befriends at the Aurora House?
(a) Blackbear.
(b) Blackhouse.
(c) Blackington.
(d) Blacksmith.

4. Who does Frobisher ask to drive him to the nearby World War I cemetery?
(a) Morty Granddes.
(b) Morty Haunted.
(c) Morty Mortimer.
(d) Morty Dhondt.

5. Why does Frobisher want to go to the nearby World War I cemetery?
(a) To find his father's grave.
(b) To find his son's grave.
(c) To find his brother's grave.
(d) To find his nephew's grave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luisa go to the record shop to pick up?

2. Who helps Luisa to the surface, after she goes back to her sinking car?

3. How is the plane that Isaac and Alberto Grimaldi are on blown up?

4. What does Frobisher send to Sixsmith with the later letter and the completed manuscript of "Cloud Atlas"?

5. Ernie warns Cavendish to be careful, or else there is something put in what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the story of Zarchry begin?

2. In the parlor of the madam, a serpent-like creature, what happens to Sonmi?

3. When Frobisher learns that Ayrs "borrows" a refrain from Frobisher's work, what is Ayrs' reponse?

4. What does Eva mention to Frobisher at the top of the medieval tower, when they are alone?

5. Why does Zachry, initially, mistrust Meronym?

6. Who are the Prescients?

7. Who does Seaboard announce as the replacement for Grimaldi?

8. What happens when Frobisher goes to visit Eva at the van de Veldt's house?

9. Why can Cavendish not get the second half of the manuscript he is reading?

10. How does Hae-Joo get Sonmi on the Golden Ark where she can see what is happening?

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