Playground: A Novel Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Richard Powers
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 107 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Playground: A Novel Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Richard Powers
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 107 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 141 - 235.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Todd go to college?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Urbana.
(c) Springfield.
(d) Peoria.

2. On which of the following were phosphates earliest found?
(a) Nauru.
(b) Banaba.
(c) Makatea.
(d) Tahiti.

3. With which of the following does the novel begin?
(a) “Indeed, we have heard how, in days of yore, / the heroes of Spear-Danes did valorous deeds, / and of the majesty of their monarchs!”
(b) “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
(c) “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
(d) “Before the Earth, / before the moon, / before the stars, / before the sun, / before the sky, / even before the sea, / there was only time and Ta’aroa.”

4. For mispronouncing which word is Rafi mocked in high school?
(a) Antidisestablishmentarianism.
(b) Worcestershire.
(c) Floccinaucinihilipilification.
(d) Daguerreotype.

5. Which of the following does Todd call his favorite language?
(a) FORTRAN.
(b) Pascal.
(c) C++.
(d) COBOL.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bus route does Rafi’s mother drive?

2. How old is Todd when he gets his first computer?

3. As what is Rafi’s stepfather employed?

4. To what school does Rafi’s father threaten to send him?

5. How many feet below the ocean surface is the Tektite II?

(see the answer key)

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