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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the Professor explain the fact that the narrator was the only test subject that didn't die.
(a) He was the only one whose emotional powers were strong enough.
(b) He seemed to be dividing his time between two identities in the first place.
(c) He was the only one who dealt with his elephant factory consciously.
(d) He was the only Calcutec independent enough from the System.

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

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

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

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

8. What does the Gatekeeper say the narrator will see if he climbs the Watchtower?
(a) A winter treat.
(b) A big surprise.
(c) His shadow.
(d) The layout of the Town.

9. Why does the girl say they can't swim to the top of the tower?
(a) They will get sucked into the undertow.
(b) The water is poisonous.
(c) The water is INKling-infested.
(d) She can't swim.

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

11. Why does the shadow say he needed the map sooner?
(a) He can't get over the Wall during the winter.
(b) He will be too weak to carry out his plan for escape.
(c) He is losing his desire to escape.
(d) The Gatekeeper has become suspicious of him.

12. 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 narrator can have whatever he wants.
(c) The clothes are off-limits.
(d) The old clothes are being saved for a special occasion.

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

14. Where does the narrator's shadow sleep?
(a) Under a tree.
(b) In a room in the barracks.
(c) In a lean-to.
(d) Beneath the Watchtower.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Librarian feel about the Pool?

2. What color is the smoke that can be seen every day in the Town?

3. What kind of watch is Junior wearing?

4. Why does the narrator say, following the chubby girl's line of thinking, that the two of them will have to help her grandfather?

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

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