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

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

3. 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 shave off his hair and cut his scalp.
(d) They castrate him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator rent the car?

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

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

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

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