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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 does the narrator say was his "training" for tuning in on a better life?
(a) Watching Casablanca.
(b) Divorcing his wife.
(c) Learning to sail.
(d) Reading The Greening of America.

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

3. Why do the people in the laundromat stare at the narrator when he begins drying the clothes?
(a) It's strange that the narrator is simply staring at the dryer.
(b) The clothes are all pink.
(c) The clothes still stink from the underground.
(d) The narrator clearly doesn't know how to use a dryer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator rent the car?

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

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

4. How many people are at the laundromat when the narrator arrives?

5. What does the narrator realize has hurt him when he wakes up at the beginning of Chapter 16?

(see the answer key)

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