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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the narrator as he passes by the INKlings' lair?
(a) He stops moving and has a hard time starting again.
(b) He falls asleep.
(c) He gets sucked in.
(d) He gets liquefied.

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

3. Why does the Gatekeeper leave the narrator alone with his shadow?
(a) He can't stand the smell.
(b) He has work to do.
(c) He thinks they don't get along.
(d) He feels sorry for the narrator.

4. What does the narrator say was his "training" for tuning in on a better life?
(a) Watching Casablanca.
(b) Learning to sail.
(c) Reading The Greening of America.
(d) Divorcing his wife.

5. What does the narrator ask the Librarian to do for him when he is finished reading skulls?
(a) Wake him up.
(b) Bring him home.
(c) Make him some coffee.
(d) Make him breakfast.

6. Why does the Caretaker collect the instruments?
(a) He needs a hobby to occupy his time.
(b) He finds them beautiful.
(c) He gets lonely and the sound comforts him.
(d) He feels that the previous owners would have wanted someone to look out for them.

7. What does the Librarian say is the key to finding her mind?
(a) The accordion.
(b) The skulls.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The Gatekeeper.

8. What does the Librarian compare looking for her mind to?
(a) Looking for lost drops of rain in a river.
(b) Looking for lost leaves on the ground.
(c) Looking for lost birds in the skies.
(d) Looking for lost needles in a haystack.

9. Where does the narrator think it might not be bad to end his life?
(a) In New York.
(b) In Frankfurt.
(c) In Zurich.
(d) In London.

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

11. What does the Librarian ask the Caretaker in the Power Station chapter?
(a) Whether he gets along with the Gatekeeper.
(b) Whether he gets along with the others.
(c) Whether he's seen an older woman around the Power Station.
(d) Whether he misses going into the Town.

12. What does the librarian notice about the narrator's statements during dinner?
(a) They're often uncertain.
(b) They're often edgy.
(c) They're often unimaginative.
(d) They're often arrogant.

13. Which of the following do the narrator and the librarian NOT have as dessert at the restaurant?
(a) Grape ice.
(b) Lemon soufflé.
(c) Tiramisu.
(d) Espresso.

14. Which instrument does the narrator eventually take with him?
(a) An accordion.
(b) A trumpet.
(c) A guitar.
(d) A harmonica.

15. What effect does the whiskey have on the narrator in Chapter 27?
(a) It makes him laugh.
(b) It doesn't register.
(c) It makes him cry.
(d) It makes him woozy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the shadow tell the narrator they're going?

2. What does the narrator's shadow suggest the two do so they don't get separated?

3. Why does the Librarian say the Dreamreader can't free her mind?

4. What does the shadow say the Town's "exit" is guarded by?

5. Why doesn't the Librarian want the narrator to go to the Power Station?

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