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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, End of the World, Charlie Parker, Time Bomb | Chapter 18, Dreamreading.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the librarian say the unicorn skull was lost while recounting the story of Professor Petrov in Chapter 9?
(a) In Leningrad.
(b) In Moscow.
(c) In Stalingrad.
(d) In the Ukraine.

2. What is it about the poster of Frankfurt at the supermarket that makes the narrator uneasy?
(a) He gets chills when he sees tall, sharp spires.
(b) He doesn't like the people's not-watching-anything gaze.
(c) He is afraid of Germans.
(d) It looks cold.

3. What does the Colonel say will become of the narrator's shadow in Chapter 8?
(a) It will forget him.
(b) It will live its own life.
(c) It will die.
(d) It will escape.

4. Why does the narrator say, following the chubby girl's line of thinking, that the two of them will have to help her grandfather?
(a) Because all three of them are good people.
(b) Because if they don't, the Factory will get the data.
(c) Because they are the only friends he has.
(d) Because if they don't, they will end up feeling guilty.

5. What does the Librarian serve at the end of each session?
(a) Soup.
(b) Cake.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator make of the librarian's appetite at the beginning of Chapter 9?

2. What do Junior and Big Boy drink while visiting the narrator?

3. Which variety of unicorn does the librarian say is the more tranquil variety?

4. How does the narrator get home from the old man's office at the beginning of Chapter 7?

5. What does the woman ask the narrator to put on at the beginning of Chapter 3?

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