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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did the Professor take with him when he left the System?
(a) All of the research samples.
(b) The narrator's personal file.
(c) The process for shuffling.
(d) All of the mammalian skulls.

4. What does the narrator make of the librarian's appetite at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) He is worried she doesn't spend enough money on food.
(b) He thinks it's a little disgusting.
(c) He isn't surprised, given her frame.
(d) He doesn't understand why women always seem to be on a diet.

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

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

7. What kind of watch is Junior wearing?
(a) A Swatch.
(b) An Omega.
(c) A Rolex.
(d) A Breitling.

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

9. What does the librarian try to get the narrator to hear while they are lying in bed?
(a) People talking in the hall outside.
(b) Her heartbeat.
(c) The sound of the cars passing below the window.
(d) Her food digesting.

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

11. What does the chubby girl say her grandfather can do for the narrator in regards to his wound?
(a) He can stop the bleeding.
(b) He can cancel the awareness of pain.
(c) He can turn back time to before the time of the wound.
(d) He can close the wound.

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

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

14. What is the old man working on in Chapter 3?
(a) Scent technology.
(b) Comparing skeletons.
(c) The mammalian palate.
(d) Diving technology.

15. Where does the woman tell the narrator that he'll find her grandfather's lab?
(a) Beyond the waterfall.
(b) Under the river.
(c) Over the rainbow.
(d) In the tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he uses his car for in Chapter 7?

2. Where does the narrator's shadow sleep?

3. What is it about the poster of Frankfurt at the supermarket that makes the narrator uneasy?

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

5. What does the narrator believe after he's slammed into the rock slab at the beginning of Chapter 23?

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