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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 35, Nail Clippers, Butter Sauce, Iron Vase.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the Librarian say the Dreamreader can't free her mind?
(a) Her mind was lost too long ago.
(b) Minds can never be freed again.
(c) It is too dangerous an undertaking.
(d) Minds are not taken in whole by the beasts, but in fragments.

3. Where do the narrator and the Librarian look for a musical instrument?
(a) In the Goods Depot.
(b) At the Train Station.
(c) In the Storeroom.
(d) In the Collection Room.

4. What does the shadow call the process of removing the discharges of mind that rise each day?
(a) Draining.
(b) Shedding.
(c) Filtering out.
(d) Skimming off.

5. What object does the Gatekeeper use to make his point to the narrator that the Wall is perfect in Chapter 10?
(a) A shovel.
(b) A sliver of wood.
(c) An axe.
(d) A nail.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator fall asleep at the end of Chapter 14?

2. What does the chubby girl say her grandfather claims will happen if the narrator doesn't get up at the beginning of Chapter 17?

3. Why does the shadow say he needed the map sooner?

4. What does the narrator notice about the girl in the car in front of them while on their way back to the Professor's lab?

5. What color is the smoke that can be seen every day in the Town?

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