Playground: A Novel Quiz | Eight 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 | Eight 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 Front Matter and Pages 1- 62.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the novel gloss “latency”?
(a) Advancing into the future.
(b) Retreating into the past.
(c) Advancing into the past.
(d) Retreating into the future.

2. What call number does Todd read through in his hometown library?
(a) VK.
(b) GC.
(c) 551.46.
(d) 623.89.

3. Which of the following does Ina cultivate?
(a) Squash.
(b) Yam.
(c) Potato.
(d) Jicama.

4. In what year is Todd born?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1960.

5. With which of the following does the novel begin?
(a) “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
(b) “Indeed, we have heard how, in days of yore, / the heroes of Spear-Danes did valorous deeds, / and of the majesty of their monarchs!”
(c) “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
(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.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Todd in the present of the novel?

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

3. To which of the following is the novel dedicated?

4. What kind of plane did Todd’s father own?

5. Which of the following identified phosphates?

(see the answer key)

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