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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator think people want to extend to everything?
(a) Innocence.
(b) Serenity.
(c) Fairness.
(d) Happiness.

2. Where does the chubby girl say she wants to go with the narrator when the reach the subway at the end of Chapter 29?
(a) To a ball game.
(b) To Disneyland.
(c) To Finland.
(d) To his place.

3. What does the narrator compare his memory of visiting the Power Station to?
(a) A dream.
(b) A fog.
(c) A ghost.
(d) A joke.

4. Why does the Librarian say the Dreamreader can't free her mind?
(a) Minds can never be freed again.
(b) It is too dangerous an undertaking.
(c) Minds are not taken in whole by the beasts, but in fragments.
(d) Her mind was lost too long ago.

5. Where is the shadow when the narrator comes to visit him at the beginning of Chapter 32?
(a) In the cellar.
(b) Under the tree.
(c) In the Watchtower.
(d) In the lean-to.

6. What does the narrator buy while waiting for the clothes to dry?
(a) Four gateaux.
(b) Four beers.
(c) Four videos.
(d) Four cassettes.

7. How long does the narrator say it will take him to read out the Librarian's mind?
(a) All winter.
(b) All year.
(c) All night.
(d) All week.

8. Why does the narrator rent the car?
(a) He wants to impress his date.
(b) He doesn't want to go back into the subway.
(c) He doesn't want to drive his own car.
(d) He doesn't want to show up with the sports bag in hand.

9. What is it that causes the narrator to check each joint and muscle of his body when he wakes at the beginning of Chapter 30?
(a) He wonders if he is still alive.
(b) He feels stiff and motionless.
(c) He hears a strange noise in his head.
(d) He has a terrible headache.

10. What kind of power is the Town apparently running on?
(a) Coal.
(b) Atomic energy.
(c) Water energy.
(d) Wind energy.

11. Why do the people in the laundromat stare at the narrator when he begins drying the clothes?
(a) The clothes still stink from the underground.
(b) The clothes are all pink.
(c) It's strange that the narrator is simply staring at the dryer.
(d) The narrator clearly doesn't know how to use a dryer.

12. Who does the Caretaker say comes to visit until the beginning of autumn?
(a) The Gatekeeper.
(b) The beasts.
(c) The Woodspeople.
(d) The Townspeople.

13. What does the narrator first notice about the musical instruments?
(a) He knows how to play them all.
(b) They are in good repair.
(c) They are old.
(d) They bear traces of their previous owners.

14. What does the narrator's shadow say he can't do?
(a) He can't breathe.
(b) He can't walk.
(c) He can't talk.
(d) He can't leave.

15. What does the shadow call the process of removing the discharges of mind that rise each day?
(a) Skimming off.
(b) Draining.
(c) Filtering out.
(d) Shedding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following do the narrator and the librarian NOT have as dessert at the restaurant?

2. What does the narrator say is "...all that is left..." at the end of the story?

3. What does the narrator ask the Librarian to do for him when he is finished reading skulls?

4. What is the first thing the narrator mentions when telling his shadow about his doubts?

5. How many men does the narrator first see when he looks out the window to where the men are digging the hole?

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