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

2. How does the Librarian feel about the Pool?
(a) It reminds her of better days.
(b) It reminds her of painful memories.
(c) She enjoys its calmness.
(d) She is afraid of it.

3. What does the Colonel say will become of the narrator's feelings for his shadow in Chapter 8?
(a) He will understand soon.
(b) He will realize that it's for the best.
(c) He will become more and more angry.
(d) He will forget.

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

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

6. When the chubby girl and the narrator reach the lab, what does the chubby girl realize?
(a) It was the Factory that broken in to.
(b) It was the System that broken in to.
(c) The lab wasn't broken into.
(d) The INKlings took everything.

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

8. Where does the narrator find the Pool?
(a) In the South.
(b) In the West.
(c) In the East.
(d) In the North.

9. The skull from which the narrator is supposed to read the first dream in Chapter 6 is from what animal?
(a) A unicorn.
(b) An INKling.
(c) A horse.
(d) A bear.

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

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

12. Where does the narrator put the skull he's received from the old man?
(a) Above the fireplace.
(b) In the closet.
(c) On the sideboard.
(d) On top of the TV.

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

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

15. What does the narrator notice about the girl in the car in front of them while on their way back to the Professor's lab?
(a) Her bracelets.
(b) Her shoes.
(c) Her earrings.
(d) Her shirt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the girl and the narrator find half-way up the tower?

3. Why does the Colonel say the narrator's love for the Librarian may not be prudent?

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

5. Where does the narrator fall asleep at the end of Chapter 14?

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