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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. Borlú tells Breach that he needs what in order to understand the truth about Orciny?
(a) Bol Ye'an records.
(b) Bowden's notes.
(c) Corwi.
(d) Geary's notes.

2. What is the name of the sniper who killed Rodriguez?
(a) Yeltsin.
(b) Yankovik.
(c) Yorjavic.
(d) Yoder.

3. When Borlú finds Bowden, why has no one arrested him?
(a) He has a bomb.
(b) No one knows what city he is in.
(c) No one can find him.
(d) He has entered Orciny.

4. What is the effect of the accident that distracts Borlú and Ashil from the investigation?
(a) Many breaches occur.
(b) Ashil breaches.
(c) Borlú breaches again.
(d) The murderer escapes.

5. What book does Borlú locate in the library?
(a) A History of Orciny.
(b) Dissensi: Hidden Places.
(c) Between The City and the City.
(d) The Cleavage of Orciny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the coda to the novel?

2. Borlú also offers to get whom out of the city?

3. Which member of the Oversight Committee is behind the conspiracy?

4. What does Ashil invite Borlú to do?

5. Borlú envisions a scenario in which Geary was able to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is sent to Bol Ye'an? What has been written on it?

2. What does Ashil believe about the origin of the accident? What does Borlú believe about it?

3. What information does Borlú learn from Buidze?

4. What does Rodriguez believe about Orciny?

5. Who killed Geary and why?

6. Why does Borlú go to the University Library of Ul Qoma? What does he find there?

7. Who is Ashil? What is he attempting to do?

8. How does Borlú walk through the city while out with Ashil?

9. What information does Borlú learn about the CEO of Sear and Core?

10. What crime has Borlú committed? How did he commit this act?

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