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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the scientists compare the mind to in explaining the use of his consciousness to the narrator in Chapter 11?
(a) A peach.
(b) An apple.
(c) A lemon.
(d) A watermelon.

2. What does the Colonel give the narrator to help nurse him back to health?
(a) A blanket.
(b) A bandage.
(c) Tea.
(d) Soup.

3. What does the narrator first encounter on his map-making investigations?
(a) A crack in the wall.
(b) The Western Woods.
(c) An abandoned mill.
(d) Old army barracks.

4. Where does the narrator find the Pool?
(a) In the North.
(b) In the West.
(c) In the South.
(d) In the East.

5. What does the narrator use to call up the End of the World?
(a) A spoken-word pattern.
(b) A program-reversal pattern.
(c) A sound-cue pattern.
(d) An eye-shifting pattern.

6. 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?
(a) Her shirt.
(b) Her earrings.
(c) Her shoes.
(d) Her bracelets.

7. Where does the Librarian live?
(a) In the Worker's Quarter.
(b) Beside the Clock Tower.
(c) In the Industrial Quarter.
(d) Beside the Old Bridge.

8. What does the narrator suggest be built for the beasts?
(a) An outlet to the River.
(b) A barn.
(c) A roofed enclosure.
(d) A larger feeding trough.

9. What happens to the dead beasts?
(a) They disappear.
(b) They are burned.
(c) They are left outside the Wall.
(d) They are thrown into the Pool.

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

11. What do Junior and Big Boy drink while visiting the narrator?
(a) Coke.
(b) Lemonade.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Vodka.

12. What does the Gatekeeper tell the narrator about the Power Station?
(a) The Power Station is extremely dangerous.
(b) The Caretaker of the Power Station won't see Townspeople.
(c) The Power Station no longer works.
(d) He might find a musical instrument there.

13. Why does the narrator say he drinks so much?
(a) It helps him concentrate.
(b) It makes him less restless.
(c) The world was supposed to end.
(d) It makes him feel brave.

14. What did the narrator loose upon arriving in the Town?
(a) His shoes.
(b) His eyesight.
(c) His voice.
(d) His shadow.

15. How does the narrator pass the sunny days?
(a) Reading in the Library.
(b) Playing chess with the Colonel.
(c) Face down in bed.
(d) Talking walks in the Woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator believe after he's slammed into the rock slab at the beginning of Chapter 23?

2. What does the narrator tell the Gatekeeper about his shadow at the end of Chapter 24?

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

4. When the chubby girl and the narrator reach the lab, what does the chubby girl realize?

5. What does the chubby girl say her grandfather can do for the narrator in regards to his wound?

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