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

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

3. How does the narrator get home from the old man's office at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) On a bus.
(b) On foot.
(c) On the subway.
(d) In a taxi.

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

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

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

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

8. What does the narrator's shadow come to the storeroom to get as an excuse to see the narrator in Chapter 10?
(a) A hammer.
(b) Nails.
(c) A saw.
(d) A wrench.

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

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

11. 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 who dealt with his elephant factory consciously.
(b) He was the only one whose emotional powers were strong enough.
(c) He was the only Calcutec independent enough from the System.
(d) He seemed to be dividing his time between two identities in the first place.

12. Is the narrator going up or down in the elevator at the beginning of the story?
(a) He isn't sure.
(b) He is going up.
(c) He is going down.
(d) He isn't moving.

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

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

15. 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) A watermelon.
(c) A lemon.
(d) An apple.

Short Answer Questions

1. The skull from which the narrator is supposed to read the first dream in Chapter 6 is from what animal?

2. What topic of conversation makes the narrator uncomfortable in Chapter 5?

3. Why does the narrator say he drinks so much?

4. What does the Colonel say will become of the narrator's feelings for his shadow in Chapter 8?

5. What does the narrator use to call up the End of the World?

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