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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 39, Popcorn, Lord Jim, Extinction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator ask the Librarian to do for him when he is finished reading skulls?
(a) Make him some coffee.
(b) Make him breakfast.
(c) Bring him home.
(d) Wake him up.

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

3. What unusual thing does the narrator note about the Power Station?
(a) There are no lines leading out.
(b) Unlike the rest of the Town's structures, the Power Station is made of wood.
(c) It seems to be talking.
(d) It seems to be glowing.

4. Where does the narrator put the skull he's received from the old man?
(a) On the sideboard.
(b) On top of the TV.
(c) In the closet.
(d) Above the fireplace.

5. What does the chubby girl begin reading in the narrator's apartment?
(a) Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
(b) Balzac's Chouans.
(c) Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
(d) Turgenev's On the Eve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator realize he'll continue to produce at the beginning of Chapter 27?

2. How does the Colonel say the Town feels about the passing of a shadow?

3. What does the Professor say will happen in regards to the narrator's three cognitive circuits?

4. What does the narrator compare his memory of visiting the Power Station to?

5. What topic of conversation makes the narrator uncomfortable in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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