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

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

3. 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.

4. How does the Professor explain the fact that the narrator was the only test subject that didn't die.
(a) He was the only one whose emotional powers were strong enough.
(b) He was the only Calcutec independent enough from the System.
(c) He seemed to be dividing his time between two identities in the first place.
(d) He was the only one who dealt with his elephant factory consciously.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what way does the Professor say the mind is like Alice in Wonderland?

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

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

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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