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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 doesn't; it's anchored in one place.
(c) It uses sophisticated engines.
(d) It uses a sail and a pole boy.

2. Who else is standing with Y.T.'s Mom's manager?
(a) The head of state
(b) The polygraph proctor
(c) Hiro
(d) The President

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

4. What does Juanita want Hiro to avoid?
(a) Snow Crash
(b) The big board
(c) L. Bob Rife
(d) Da5id

5. What is the Deliverators real name?
(a) Windsor Mews
(b) Cosa Nostra
(c) Hiro Protagonist
(d) Y.T.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the En?

2. What is the drug of choice in the Sacrifice Zone?

3. What did Lagos think Sumerian gods were?

4. Of what does the story of Enki remind Hiro?

5. When she arrives, where does she deliver the briefcase?

Short Essay Questions

1. There are two new additions in Hiro's office within the Metaverse. What are they and what are their functions?

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

3. Who is Da5id?

4. In Chapter 38 we see what we would consider violations to our right to privacy. What does Y.T.'s mother put up with working for the Feds?

5. Uncle Enzo takes a real liking to Y.T. in Chapter 21. Why?

6. When Y.T. enters Fedland, what else can we note about the present government?

7. For the first time in this book, the effects of the drug Snow Crash are revealed to Hiro. What are they?

8. How does the Raft navigate?

9. According the the Librarian in Chapter 30, what are some links between the Cult of Asherah and the Bible?

10. What are Metacops?

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