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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 'thing' has taken the taxi drivers?
(a) A semi autonomous guard unit
(b) A gang of thieves and kidnappers
(c) Aliens.
(d) The 'Rat Thing'

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

3. Who does Y.T. find herself working for for the first time?
(a) The Mafia
(b) The Government
(c) The Enforcers
(d) Fedland

4. Where can the avatars not pass through each other?
(a) In The Black Sun
(b) When they are married.
(c) When they don't have enough credits.
(d) On main street

5. What does Y.T. fling at the computer screen?
(a) An award her mother had won
(b) A picture of her father
(c) A picture of her as a baby
(d) An award that Y.T. had gotten as a kid

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raven throw at Hiro?

2. Who tells Hiro that his brain is vulnerable to nam-shub?

3. What is the Snow Crash?

4. What is the name of the virtual world that Hiro works in after losing his pizza delivery job?

5. What did Lagos think Sumerian gods were?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Da5id?

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

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

4. What is the Sacrifice Zone?

5. What are Metacops?

6. In Chapter 33, we learn more about Enki and his history. What is notable to Hiro?

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

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

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

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