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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the chubby girl say she can hear from the INKlings?
(a) Their lips smacking.
(b) Their jaws snapping.
(c) Their tails wagging.
(d) Their fins flapping.

2. What does the chubby girl say her grandfather can do for the narrator in regards to his wound?
(a) He can stop the bleeding.
(b) He can turn back time to before the time of the wound.
(c) He can close the wound.
(d) He can cancel the awareness of pain.

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

4. Which variety of unicorn does the librarian say is the more tranquil variety?
(a) The Russian variety.
(b) The Indian variety.
(c) The Greek variety.
(d) The Chinese variety.

5. What topic of conversation makes the narrator uncomfortable in Chapter 5?
(a) The old man's sex drive.
(b) His own sex drive.
(c) The old man's granddaughter's sex drive.
(d) The INKlings' sex drive.

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

7. Which landmark does the narrator describe in detail at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) The clock tower.
(b) The promenade.
(c) The town park.
(d) The town square.

8. What is the second book the narrator reads towards the end of Chapter 15?
(a) Spring Torrents.
(b) The Red and the Black.
(c) Spartacus.
(d) Rudin.

9. What do the girl and the narrator find half-way up the tower?
(a) A rope.
(b) A secret cave.
(c) A message from the Professor.
(d) A stash of paperclips.

10. What does the narrator say he uses his car for in Chapter 7?
(a) Long drives.
(b) Short outings.
(c) Shopping.
(d) Dates.

11. In what way does the Professor say the mind is like Alice in Wonderland?
(a) You never know who you're going to meet.
(b) You need a special drug to get you in.
(c) Everything is topsy-turvy.
(d) You can only get in by going through a narrow hole.

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

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

14. What creatures do the girl and the narrator meet underground?
(a) INKlings.
(b) Leeches.
(c) Worms.
(d) Cockroaches.

15. What does the narrator wish he could be, in thinking about the girl in the Skyline?
(a) Oblivious.
(b) Carefree.
(c) Young.
(d) Normal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of tree did the girl see outside her window while in the hospital?

2. Where does the woman tell the narrator that he'll find her grandfather's lab?

3. What did the Gatekeeper say he was when showing the narrator his arsenal at the end of Chapter 2?

4. Why does the narrator say he has no intention of turning in his Calcutec qualifications in Chapter 11?

5. What does the narrator notice about the woman that he follows down the corridor?

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