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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helps the narrator find the subway tunnel that he will take in London?
(a) A train conductor.
(b) The lady at an information booth.
(c) A stranger heading towards the subway tunnel.
(d) A police officer.

2. When the narrator returns to his original seat on the train, what does he find is missing?
(a) His bag.
(b) The feces in the bathroom.
(c) His new friend.
(d) His money.

3. For what day does the narrator provide a sample timetable?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Monday.

4. What is the setting of Chapter 197?
(a) A train car.
(b) The train station.
(c) The police station.
(d) His mother's house.

5. How old was the narrator when Siobhan started working at the school?
(a) 12 years old.
(b) 10 years old.
(c) 5 years old.
(d) 7 years old.

6. How many sections does the A-level exams have?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

7. Which one of the following is not one of the three conditions the narrator names as to why life on earth occurred as the result of an accident?
(a) Extraction.
(b) Heritability.
(c) Replication.
(d) Mutation.

8. How does the narrator feel when the dream in Chapter 229 is over?
(a) Scared.
(b) Happy.
(c) Sad.
(d) Worried.

9. What does the narrator sketch while on the train?
(a) A map of Europe.
(b) A picture of his mother and father when they were married.
(c) Toby's picture.
(d) The patterns of the upholstry and buckheads of the train.

10. How many illustrations are in Chapter 173?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

11. In Chapter 229, what happens in the narrator's dream?
(a) Almost everyone on earth dies from a virus.
(b) People leave earth to live on a newly discovered planet.
(c) People are taken captive by animals.
(d) Everyone dies from a meterorite.

12. What does the narrator compare peoples' brains to?
(a) Computers.
(b) VCRs.
(c) Lawn Mowers.
(d) Televisions.

13. What makes the narrator's dream in Chapter 229 special?
(a) His dream is the same as a scientist at NASA.
(b) His dream was depicted in a movie.
(c) He has the same dream every night.
(d) He has different versions of the dream.

14. What sound does the narrator compare the train's arrival in Chapter 227 to?
(a) A bird chirping loudly.
(b) A screaming tea kettle.
(c) A sword fight.
(d) A tornado.

15. Who supervises the narrator while he takes his A-level exams?
(a) Mr. Loxely.
(b) Siobhan.
(c) Mrs. Gascoyne.
(d) Reverend Peters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mother lose her job?

2. The narrator starts Chapter 157 with a discourse on what happened at school for what number of days?

3. What reason does the narrator give for going to London?

4. Why does the narrator say you can join Orion to bits of Lepus, Taurus, or Gemini?

5. What time does the narrator wake up on his sample timetable?

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