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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. Why didn't Hiro get infected?
(a) He didn't touch Da5id.
(b) He is immune.
(c) He wore a mask.
(d) He wasn't looking directly into the bitmap.

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

3. How do you kill an avatar in the Metaverse?
(a) You insert a virus.
(b) You cut off its head.
(c) You pour water on it.
(d) You stab it in the heart.

4. Who or what comes to see that the job is accomplished on time?
(a) The Mafia copter
(b) The timekeeper
(c) The media van
(d) The competition

5. Around what does the questioning by the polygraph proctor center?
(a) The time it took her to read the memos
(b) Her recent usage of the elevator
(c) Y.T.
(d) Why the award was thrown at the screen

Short Answer Questions

1. Y.T. sprays The Clinks manager with _____________________.

2. What is Nam-Shub?

3. What is Hiro offered before going into the Black Sun?

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

5. From whose point of view is this chapter narrated?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Raft navigate?

2. More ethnic stereotyping is revealed in Chapter 40. How do people from the New South Africa franchise treat Hiro?

3. What is the Black Sun?

4. What is revealed in Y.T.'s relationship to her mom?

5. Who is Da5id?

6. Why is the Deliverator so disturbed by the idea that the pizza he delivers might be late?

7. Other than Hiro's ability with computers and programming, we see that he has other skills that are revealed in Chapter 11. What are they?

8. In Chapter 10, there is an underlying theme that goes to extremes. What is this theme and what are some examples so far in the book?

9. What does Chapter 37 reveal about the US Government?

10. In Chapter 39, what do we learn about Raven and the Orthos?

(see the answer keys)

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