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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. What do Junior and Big Boy do to the narrator, saying they have no choice?
(a) They gouge his eyes.
(b) They slice his abdomen.
(c) They castrate him.
(d) They shave off his hair and cut his scalp.

2. Why does the narrator rent the car?
(a) He doesn't want to drive his own car.
(b) He doesn't want to show up with the sports bag in hand.
(c) He wants to impress his date.
(d) He doesn't want to go back into the subway.

3. How does the Professor explain the narrator's memory of the dam and the king's coronation?
(a) It was an artificial memory the narrator made up.
(b) It was a real memory coming back from his core consciousness.
(c) It was the shadow of a memory from before the shuffle.
(d) It was an artificial memory the Professor made up.

4. What does the narrator eat with his beer at the beer hall after buying his new clothes?
(a) A burger.
(b) Chips.
(c) Oysters.
(d) A pretzel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Professor explain the fact that the narrator was the only test subject that didn't die.

2. What do Junior and Big Boy tell the narrator to tell the System they were looking for?

3. Why do the people in the laundromat stare at the narrator when he begins drying the clothes?

4. What does the narrator buy while waiting for the clothes to dry?

5. What does the Professor say will happen in regards to the narrator's three cognitive circuits?

(see the answer key)

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