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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 jaws snapping.
(b) Their lips smacking.
(c) Their tails wagging.
(d) Their fins flapping.

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

3. What does the narrator believe after he's slammed into the rock slab at the beginning of Chapter 23?
(a) The girl misled him on purpose.
(b) He has a concussion.
(c) He will never get out of the underground.
(d) He is dead.

4. Where does the narrator say the smoke comes from?
(a) The Eastern Woods.
(b) The Apple Grove.
(c) The Southern Hill.
(d) The Worker's Quarter.

5. What does the Colonel say will become of the narrator's shadow in Chapter 8?
(a) It will forget him.
(b) It will escape.
(c) It will live its own life.
(d) It will die.

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

7. What does the narrator tell the librarian to comfort her at the end of Chapter 18?
(a) Nothing is her fault.
(b) Her mother must have missed her.
(c) She is the best friend he's got.
(d) She is not alone.

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

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

10. Who calls and wakes the narrator up while he is sleeping after finishing his shuffling?
(a) The girl in pink.
(b) Junior.
(c) The Professor.
(d) The librarian.

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 wrench.
(b) A saw.
(c) Nails.
(d) A hammer.

12. What does the Colonel say dying might be for the beasts?
(a) Their salvation.
(b) A relief.
(c) A traumatic experience.
(d) A painful occurrence.

13. Where does the narrator fall asleep at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) In the Woods.
(b) At the Gate.
(c) In the Library.
(d) Near the Pool.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator begins Chapter 5 with a lengthy discussion about the quality of which object?

2. What does the Gatekeeper tell the narrator about the Power Station?

3. What does the narrator suggest be built for the beasts?

4. What do Junior and Big Boy do to the narrator, saying they have no choice?

5. What does the narrator wish he could be, in thinking about the girl in the Skyline?

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