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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do the girl and the narrator appear to be walking on after the rock slab?
(a) A bridge.
(b) A train track.
(c) A honeycomb.
(d) A minefield.

4. How does the Professor explain the narrator's memory of the dam and the king's coronation?
(a) It was the shadow of a memory from before the shuffle.
(b) It was an artificial memory the Professor made up.
(c) It was a real memory coming back from his core consciousness.
(d) It was an artificial memory the narrator made up.

5. What does the Professor say he did to the core consciousness of his test subjects?
(a) He exchanged them with new information.
(b) He shuffled them.
(c) He made them into visualized stories.
(d) He deleted them.

6. Is the narrator going up or down in the elevator at the beginning of the story?
(a) He isn't sure.
(b) He isn't moving.
(c) He is going up.
(d) He is going down.

7. What does the Gatekeeper say about the narrator's questions?
(a) There will be no answers today.
(b) The narrator asks too many questions.
(c) Soon he will no longer feel the need to ask.
(d) The questions are annoying.

8. What does the narrator find himself longing for underground?
(a) A girlfriend.
(b) A cup of coffee.
(c) The morning newspaper.
(d) Sunlight.

9. What time of year does the narrator say it is at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Spring.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

10. What does the chubby girl say her grandfather claims will happen if the narrator doesn't get up at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) The world is going to be destroyed.
(b) The world is going to end.
(c) The world is going to be terminated.
(d) The world is going to be obliterated.

11. What does the narrator's shadow come to the storeroom to get as an excuse to see the narrator in Chapter 10?
(a) A hammer.
(b) A wrench.
(c) A saw.
(d) Nails.

12. 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 escape.
(d) It will die.

13. What is the first thing the Professor asks for on seeing his granddaughter and the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 25?
(a) Something to drink.
(b) A telephone.
(c) An INKling repellant device.
(d) Food.

14. What does the narrator count while in the elevator at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) The notes in the song he's whistling.
(b) The buttons on the elevator control panel.
(c) The holes in the ceiling.
(d) The coins in his pocket.

15. 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 if they don't, they will end up feeling guilty.
(b) Because if they don't, the Factory will get the data.
(c) Because they are the only friends he has.
(d) Because all three of them are good people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator think about the job he's doing as a dream reader?

2. What does the Colonel say will become of the narrator's feelings for his shadow in Chapter 8?

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

4. Who calls and wakes the narrator up while he is sleeping after finishing his shuffling?

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

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