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

2. At first glance, the Deliverator appears to be more like what?
(a) Deliverator looks more like an elementary school teacher.
(b) Deliverator looks like a salesman.
(c) Deliverator appears to be slow witted.
(d) Part of a paramilitary organization instead of pizza delivery.

3. What is the name of the peacekeeping force in the White Columns burbclave?
(a) MetaCops Unlimited
(b) Columns Commandants
(c) White Columns Police
(d) White Knights

4. What has the Snow Crash done to Da5id?
(a) Intercepted an ambulance
(b) Smashed it to pieces
(c) Restored complicated plans
(d) Crashed his brain

5. How many quadrants are in The Black Sun?
(a) Two
(b) Six
(c) Four
(d) Eight

Short Answer Questions

1. What quadrant do Hiro and Da5id go to check out?

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

3. What is Y.T.'s Mom's manager's name?

4. Where can the avatars not pass through each other?

5. Where is the package Y.T. picks up destined for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the link between the virus, the drug and L. Bob Rife?

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. A foreboding character is introduced in Chapter 15. Who is he and what is foreshadowed in this chapter?

7. What is a Nam-Shub?

8. What did Enki do to humanities words?

9. What are Metacops?

10. How is it apparent the control Hiro has over the information system?

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