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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say the sign "This time I like you." refers to?
(a) The time he ignored the doorbell because he didn't wat to see his great-aunt.
(b) The time he wore mismatched socks.
(c) The time he locked himself out of his house.
(d) The time he left a manuscript on a train.

2. What gives the narrator the idea that space has a shape and form?
(a) Watching his own unconscious movements.
(b) Watching universes fly by.
(c) Watching Lieutenant Fenimore move.
(d) Watching Ursula H'x move.

3. During what period did the dinosaurs die out?
(a) The Eocene.
(b) The Cretaceous.
(c) The Miocene.
(d) The Paleozoic.

4. What example of a detailed bet that he makes does Qfwfq give?
(a) What shape Australia's coastline will take.
(b) Whether the Assyrians will invade Mesopotamia.
(c) Where the Great Pyramids will be located.
(d) How deep the Grand Canyon will be.

5. Why is Lll more agile than Qfwfq?
(a) She has run races all her life.
(b) She has a new kind of knee joint.
(c) She is younger than Qfwfq.
(d) She was born on land.

6. What does Lll dare Qfwfq to do when they are playing near the water?
(a) Make as big a splash as he can.
(b) Get as close to the water as he can.
(c) Run through the waves as fast as he can.
(d) Hold his breath under water as long as he can.

7. In the world millions of years later, where does the narrator see the image of the first female mollusk he interacts with?
(a) In only photographs and representations of women.
(b) In only one woman he sees for a fleeting moment.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) In all women.

8. Where does Qfwfq want Lll to come away with him to?
(a) An island in the river.
(b) A system of caverns in the forest.
(c) An underwater garden.
(d) A plain beyond the mountain.

9. What swarm of insects does the narrator describe flying through the air in the second part of the story, in the railway embankment scene?
(a) Flies.
(b) Mosquitoes.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) Bees.

10. What sign does the narrator finally choose as his response to the first sign?
(a) What of it?
(b) So what?
(c) What do you mean?
(d) Who cares.

11. What does the first sign the narrator sees say?
(a) I know you.
(b) I saw it.
(c) I saw you.
(d) I know it.

12. What bet does Qfwfq make about Signorina Giuseppina Pensotti before she (or humanity at all) yet exists?
(a) Whether she turns right or left on a specific day, coming out of her house.
(b) How many footsteps she will take in her lifetime.
(c) What exact date she will die.
(d) How many children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren she will have.

13. How often does the whole family visit N'ba N'ga to get his advice?
(a) Once a month.
(b) Once a year.
(c) Once a century.
(d) Once a decade.

14. What do the New Ones do when they find the dinosaur body?
(a) They burn the body out of fear.
(b) They hold a trial to determine the fate of the dinosaur.
(c) They move away from the area, now taboo.
(d) They celebrate.

15. Where does the narrator strike Lieutenant Fenimore as he falls on him?
(a) On the gluteus maximus.
(b) On the cervical vertibrae.
(c) In the spleen.
(d) On the cranium.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dean (k)yK react when Qfwfq loses a bet?

2. How does Lieutenant Fenimore react when the narrator indicates he's seen a universe?

3. What unplanned benefit does the shell give the narrator?

4. What does the narrator describe the making of his shell as?

5. Which of the following impossible fantasies does the narrator have in his shapeless form?

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