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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 is the name of Case's new girlfriend?
(a) Susan.
(b) Sally.
(c) Michael.
(d) Trixie.

2. For how long is Case brain dead?
(a) A full minute.
(b) Five seconds.
(c) Only a few short moments.
(d) Forty seconds.

3. Who does Wintermute appear to Armitage as?
(a) The Finn.
(b) His father.
(c) Colonel Kurtz.
(d) General Girling.

4. What is especially horrifying for cowboys?
(a) The demands of the meat.
(b) Spatial disorientation.
(c) Mortality.
(d) ISP service interruption.

5. What does Case lose?
(a) The construct.
(b) The key.
(c) His anger.
(d) His deck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Case fantasize about as a child?

2. Why do Case and Molly go to Chiba?

3. What is riding the cart that arrives for Case and Maelcum?

4. What role does Michele play in the trio of cops?

5. What enables Case to pilot the Kuang perfectly?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the atmosphere and decor of Straylight.

2. What does Wintermute compare itself to? Why?

3. What happens to Molly in this chapter? What will Case do about it?

4. What is the significance of the concrete bunker from the beach?

5. How does Wintermute get Case and Maelcum into the Straylight?

6. Why does Case try to save Corto/Armitage?

7. Describe Case's "dream sequence."

8. How does the story end? What happens to Case?

9. What happens to Armitage in this chapter?

10. Why does Ashpool kill his wife? How does her death affect the family?

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