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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 close the wound.
(c) He can cancel the awareness of pain.
(d) He can turn back time to before the time of the wound.

2. 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 is dead.
(c) The girl misled him on purpose.
(d) He has a concussion.

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

4. Why does the girl say they can't swim to the top of the tower?
(a) The water is INKling-infested.
(b) The water is poisonous.
(c) They will get sucked into the undertow.
(d) She can't swim.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Gatekeeper say the narrator will see if he climbs the Watchtower?

2. What do the scientists compare the mind to in explaining the use of his consciousness to the narrator in Chapter 11?

3. Which landmark does the narrator describe in detail at the beginning of Chapter 4?

4. When the chubby girl and the narrator reach the lab, what does the chubby girl realize?

5. Who calls and wakes the narrator up while he is sleeping after finishing his shuffling?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you know about the narrator's job based on your reading of Chapter 3?

2. What does Junior tell the narrator to tell the System about their visit and the wound? Why?

3. Describe the process for reading dreams.

4. What does the narrator realize in Chapter 17 about Junior's reference to a "time bomb"?

5. What does the Colonel tell the narrator about the beasts' death in Chapter 20?

6. Explain how the relationship between the narrator and the young woman develops in Chapter 5.

7. Give a brief description of the beasts introduced in Chapter 2.

8. What does the Librarian say she particularly remembers about her mother in Chapter 22? How does the narrator explain this memory?

9. What do you know about the Pool based on your readings in Chapter 12?

10. Describe the Collection Room.

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