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

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

3. What does the narrator realize has hurt him when he wakes up at the beginning of Chapter 16?
(a) The sun.
(b) A skull.
(c) The winter.
(d) A beast.

4. How many people are at the laundromat when the narrator arrives?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Junior and Big Boy do to the narrator, saying they have no choice?

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

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

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

5. How does the Professor explain the narrator's memory of the dam and the king's coronation?

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