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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 narrator count while in the elevator at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) The coins in his pocket.
(b) The holes in the ceiling.
(c) The buttons on the elevator control panel.
(d) The notes in the song he's whistling.

2. 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 wrench.
(c) A hammer.
(d) Nails.

3. What do Junior and Big Boy do to the narrator, saying they have no choice?
(a) They shave off his hair and cut his scalp.
(b) They slice his abdomen.
(c) They gouge his eyes.
(d) They castrate him.

4. What does the Librarian serve at the end of each session?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Cake.
(c) Soup.
(d) Tea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator tell the Gatekeeper about his shadow at the end of Chapter 24?

2. Why does the narrator think about the job he's doing as a dream reader?

3. What does the narrator use to call up the End of the World?

4. What do Junior and Big Boy tell the narrator to tell the System they were looking for?

5. What did the Gatekeeper say he was when showing the narrator his arsenal at the end of Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe where the narrator's shadow lives.

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

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

4. Describe the differences between Western and Eastern unicorns as presented in Chapter 9.

5. Describe the process for reading dreams.

6. Briefly describe the memory the narrator has while climbing the underground tower with the chubby girl.

7. Why does the Professor say in Chapter 25 that he gave the narrator the data to shuffle with the terminal program?

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

9. What do you know about the Wall surrounding the Town based on your readings in Chapter 10?

10. What information does the chubby girl in pink get from reading her grandfather's notebook in Chapter 19?

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