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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. What does the Gatekeeper use to pierce the narrator's eyes in Chapter 4?
(a) A laser.
(b) A flame.
(c) A pencil.
(d) A blade.

2. How does the narrator get home from the old man's office at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) On the subway.
(b) In a taxi.
(c) On a bus.
(d) On foot.

3. What does the librarian try to get the narrator to hear while they are lying in bed?
(a) The sound of the cars passing below the window.
(b) People talking in the hall outside.
(c) Her heartbeat.
(d) Her food digesting.

4. What is the old man working on in Chapter 3?
(a) Diving technology.
(b) Scent technology.
(c) The mammalian palate.
(d) Comparing skeletons.

5. What does the Colonel say will become of the narrator's feelings for his shadow in Chapter 8?
(a) He will become more and more angry.
(b) He will forget.
(c) He will realize that it's for the best.
(d) He will understand soon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator tell the librarian to comfort her at the end of Chapter 18?

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

3. Why does the narrator say, following the chubby girl's line of thinking, that the two of them will have to help her grandfather?

4. What does the Colonel say will become of the narrator's shadow in Chapter 8?

5. What is it about the poster of Frankfurt at the supermarket that makes the narrator uneasy?

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