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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33, Rainy-Day Laundry, Car Rental, Bob Dylan.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does the Professor say the mind is like Alice in Wonderland?
(a) You never know who you're going to meet.
(b) You can only get in by going through a narrow hole.
(c) Everything is topsy-turvy.
(d) You need a special drug to get you in.

2. What does the narrator buy while waiting for the clothes to dry?
(a) Four gateaux.
(b) Four videos.
(c) Four cassettes.
(d) Four beers.

3. What does the Professor say he did to the core consciousness of his test subjects?
(a) He made them into visualized stories.
(b) He deleted them.
(c) He exchanged them with new information.
(d) He shuffled them.

4. What is the second book the narrator reads towards the end of Chapter 15?
(a) Rudin.
(b) Spring Torrents.
(c) The Red and the Black.
(d) Spartacus.

5. What does the Professor say will happen in regards to the narrator's three cognitive circuits?
(a) The circuits have arranged themselves in a never-ending loop.
(b) The first two circuits are going to burn out.
(c) The narrator will end up stuck in circuit three with no hope of return.
(d) The program the Professor wrote will kill the second circuit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Colonel give the narrator to help nurse him back to health?

2. What is the first thing the Professor asks for on seeing his granddaughter and the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 25?

3. Why does the narrator rent the car?

4. Why does the Colonel say the narrator's love for the Librarian may not be prudent?

5. What does the narrator eat with his beer at the beer hall after buying his new clothes?

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