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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 limits an avatar's appearance?
(a) The area they are located in
(b) The user's computer equipment
(c) The length of time of their existence
(d) The current style or fashion

2. The Deliverator used to have another job description. What was it?
(a) The Deliverator drove a semi tanker.
(b) The Deliverator ran a bicycle messenger service.
(c) The Deliverator used to sell used cars.
(d) The Deliverator used to write software.

3. Y.T. sprays The Clinks manager with _____________________.
(a) Liquid Nitrogen
(b) Bear Mace
(c) Liquid Knuckles
(d) Pepper Spray

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

5. From where do Vitaly Chernobyl and the Meltdowns hail?
(a) North America
(b) Russia
(c) Soviet Union
(d) The Metaverse

Short Answer Questions

1. How many quadrants are in The Black Sun?

2. What does the large white man ask of Hiro?

3. What is the Deliverators real name?

4. What happens after Y.T. picks up the briefcase?

5. What does Hiro consider Enki to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Black Sun?

2. What did Enki do to humanities words?

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

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

5. What is the Sacrifice Zone?

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

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

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

9. What things are revealed in Chapter 20 to make Raven a more formidable adversary than previously realized?

10. 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?

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