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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. How does the Raft navigate?
(a) It doesn't; it floats around using ocean currents.
(b) It uses sophisticated engines.
(c) It uses a sail and a pole boy.
(d) It doesn't; it's anchored in one place.

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

3. What is Y.T.'s destination?
(a) Beverly Hills
(b) Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates #1106
(c) Los Angeles
(d) Hollywood California

4. What is the Snow Crash?
(a) A computer virus
(b) Distilled blood serum laced with cocaine
(c) Cocaine
(d) Distilled water from a fountain in Venezuela

5. Who is the common recipient of all donations and founder of the Pearly Gates?
(a) L. Bob Rife
(b) The Librarian
(c) Hiro
(d) Reverend Wayne Bedford

Short Answer Questions

1. What was in the airstream that appeared over the town square?

2. What has the Snow Crash done to Da5id?

3. What does Raven throw at Hiro?

4. What did Lagos think Sumerian gods were?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Avatars?

2. What is the Black Sun?

3. Who is Da5id?

4. How does the Raft navigate?

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

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

7. What are some possible reasons that Y.T. might feel uncomfortable around the people of Griffith Park and the Falabalas?

8. What is the Metaverse and how is it viewed by those who spend the most amount of time there?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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