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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. Why does Loga go to the bathroom while visiting her friends?
(a) To change her makeup.
(b) To change her hair.
(c) To change her shoes.
(d) To change her clothes.

2. What store is having a sale in 'Cache & Carry'?
(a) Weatherbee & Crotch.
(b) Sears.
(c) Ambercrombie & Fitch.
(d) Bells and Whistles.

3. Who employs "everyone in the world" according to Titus?
(a) Schools.
(b) Clubs.
(c) Hospitals.
(d) Corporations.

4. What does Titus know Violet is watching when she is first noticed paying attention to them?
(a) Their happiness.
(b) Their stupidity.
(c) Their intelligence.
(d) Their grace.

5. Where do the teenagers go to have fun at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The arcade.
(b) The moon of Venus.
(c) Mars.
(d) The moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group is responsible for the hacker?

2. Who was the only one not attacked?

3. What does Violet ask Titus if he can do?

4. What does Titus try to do with Link and Marty?

5. What does Titus think the best thing about the feed is?

Short Essay Questions

1. Already in the story to this point, it is clear that Titus and Violet are beginning to have a relationship. Describe how the author has already implied this in the novel.

2. What do you think happened in 'Nudging'? Was Titus dreaming, or were the police or the hacker group sifting through his feed?

3. Titus reports that "everyone is supersmart now", because everyone can look anything up instantly. Based on what you have seen in the novel, do you agree that everyone is intelligent?

4. Discuss the conversation in 'Dead Language' about writing, and what the conversation implies.

5. Why is Titus so lonely?

6. Explain why Calista, Marty, Titus, and Link can get into college parties.

7. What does Violet imply when she notes that Titus is the only one of his group that is able to use metaphors?

8. Describe what happens when the feed is turned back on.

9. Describe how the teenagers are attacked.

10. Describe how you perceive the teenagers by this point in the novel.

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