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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 slice his abdomen.
(b) They castrate him.
(c) They gouge his eyes.
(d) They shave off his hair and cut his scalp.

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

3. Why does the Colonel say the narrator's love for the Librarian may not be prudent?
(a) Without mind, she cannot return his feelings.
(b) She does not care about him; she only helps him because she has to.
(c) She is married.
(d) She is too young.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator say was his "training" for tuning in on a better life?

4. What is the second book the narrator reads towards the end of Chapter 15?

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

(see the answer key)

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