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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Gatekeeper say about the stash of old clothes?
(a) The previous owners wouldn't want anyone using the old clothes.
(b) The clothes are off-limits.
(c) The old clothes are being saved for a special occasion.
(d) The narrator can have whatever he wants.

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

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

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

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

6. Why does the chubby girl say she wears pink?
(a) It helps scare off the INKlings.
(b) It's her favorite color.
(c) It was her mother's favorite color.
(d) Her grandfather thinks she looks pretty in pink.

7. The narrator begins Chapter 5 with a lengthy discussion about the quality of which object?
(a) A sandwich.
(b) A knife.
(c) A skull.
(d) A sofa.

8. What do Junior and Big Boy do to the narrator, saying they have no choice?
(a) They shave off his hair and cut his scalp.
(b) They gouge his eyes.
(c) They castrate him.
(d) They slice his abdomen.

9. 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 coins in his pocket.
(d) The holes in the ceiling.

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

11. How does the Professor explain the narrator's memory of the dam and the king's coronation?
(a) It was an artificial memory the narrator made up.
(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 the shadow of a memory from before the shuffle.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Librarian live?

2. What event makes the beasts all stop what they are doing and move simultaneously in one direction in Chapter 2?

3. What object does the Gatekeeper use to make his point to the narrator that the Wall is perfect in Chapter 10?

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

5. Where does the librarian say the unicorn skull was lost while recounting the story of Professor Petrov in Chapter 9?

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