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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Vitaly and the Meltdowns do now?
(a) Work for the Library of Congress
(b) Play concerts in places like the L.A. river and other skateboarder hang outs
(c) Work at a nuclear power plant
(d) Work for immigration

2. Who does Juanita want Hiro to meet?
(a) L. Bob Rife
(b) Lagos
(c) Da5id
(d) Snow Crash

3. What attaches itself to the Deliverator and ends up helping him?
(a) The Kourier Y.T. with an electromagnetic harpoon
(b) A business card for a new job
(c) A GPS device
(d) A new fence

4. From where do Vitaly Chernobyl and the Meltdowns hail?
(a) The Metaverse
(b) Soviet Union
(c) Russia
(d) North America

5. What was in the airstream that appeared over the town square?
(a) A helicopter loaded with men and submachine guns
(b) A whirlwind
(c) Paratroopers
(d) A ten-megaton hydrogen bomb

6. When she arrives, where does she deliver the briefcase?
(a) The graveyard
(b) The chapel
(c) The main office
(d) The common area

7. To what are the standard assembly line workers vulnerable?
(a) Hijacking
(b) Muscle spasms
(c) Laser lights
(d) Infection

8. Who is the head of the Crips?
(a) T. Bone
(b) Hiro
(c) Raven
(d) Squeaky

9. From whose point of view is this chapter narrated?
(a) A-276
(b) A-627
(c) A-672
(d) A-267

10. What kind of motorcycle did Hiro want?
(a) A Harley Davidson
(b) A new Suzuki
(c) A street-racer bike
(d) A new Yamaha with Smartwheels

11. What is Nam-Shub?
(a) Street slang for a shrug native to the area
(b) Single syllables linked to form words
(c) A black cube
(d) The name of the antidote

12. Why can't anything touch Da5id?
(a) He takes vitamins.
(b) He's got a big bodyguard.
(c) The avatar protects him.
(d) He's on antiviral medication.

13. Who tells Hiro that his brain is vulnerable to nam-shub?
(a) Raven
(b) Da5id
(c) Asherah
(d) Lagos

14. What does Hiro consider Enki to be?
(a) The first hacker
(b) A god
(c) A highly deluded man
(d) A highly intelligent person

15. What is the drug of choice in the Sacrifice Zone?
(a) Testosterone
(b) Heroine
(c) Snow Crash
(d) Cocaine

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the center of the Raft consist?

2. Where did L. Bob Rife start his career in sports, and what did he do afterward?

3. Where does Hiro decide to go that he needs transportation?

4. To what does Y.T. compare the Snow Crash?

5. What is in the briefcase recovered from T-Bone's BMW?

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