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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. 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 who dealt with his elephant factory consciously.
(b) He was the only Calcutec independent enough from the System.
(c) He was the only one whose emotional powers were strong enough.
(d) He seemed to be dividing his time between two identities in the first place.

2. What do Junior and Big Boy tell the narrator to tell the System they were looking for?
(a) The data.
(b) The skull.
(c) The notebook.
(d) The safe.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator rent the car?

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

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

5. What is the first thing the Professor asks for on seeing his granddaughter and the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 25?

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