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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An excerpt, "convenience, particular sadness of," describes several services available in the city, including holograms of ex-girlfriends and what?
(a) Best friend robots.
(b) Servant robots.
(c) Fighting robots.
(d) Drinking buddy robots.

2. Who does the shuttle driver turn out to be in Chapter 20?
(a) Charles.
(b) Phil.
(c) David Hume.
(d) The repair bot.

3. What does Charles experience at the end of Chapter 19?
(a) Death.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Nothingness.
(d) Suffocation.

4. What customers want, Charles says, is to repeatedly experience the _____ moments of their lives repeatedly.
(a) Worst.
(b) Most loving.
(c) Warmest.
(d) Greatest.

5. Near Charles in the beginning of Chapter 20, he sees what familiar-seeming objects?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Computer parts.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Lamps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 14 begins with a repeat of the warning that when "it" happens, Charles does what?

2. What refers to an array of data ordered such that individual items can be located with a single index or subscript?

3. The maiden voyage of the time machine in Chapter 22 is a technical failure because Charles and his father had not figured out what?

4. What is a suspension in air of words and images which Charles peers into on the subway in Chapter 11?

5. In the "Chronodiegetical Schematic" which opens the book, what is the subtitle for "A Series"?

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