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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theatrical company is performing on the barge that Hackworth and Fiona board?
(a) Bespoke.
(b) Dramatis Personae.
(c) Dovetail.
(d) AEther.

2. When Carl Hollywood meets with Lord Finkle-McGraw, what does Lord Finkle-McGraw say regarding Elizabeth?
(a) Elizabeth has left Cryptnet in order to join the Drummers.
(b) Elizabeth has left the Drummers in order to join CryptNet.
(c) Elizabeth has left the Victorians in order to join the Drummers.
(d) Elizabeth has left the Victorians in order to join CryptNet.

3. When Carl Hollywood meets with Lord Finkle-McGraw, what does Carl Hollywood say regarding Miranda?
(a) Miranda has joined the Drummers, she continues to work on the Primer, and she contacts Carl Hollywood regularly.
(b) Miranda has joined the Drummers, she continues to work on the Primer, and she cannot be reached.
(c) Miranda has joined the Victorians, she continues to work on the Primer, and she contacts Carl Hollywood regularly.
(d) Miranda has joined the Drummers, she has stopped working on the Primer, and she cannot be reached.

4. At the Cathay Hotel, what does Beck invite Miranda to do?
(a) Join the Fist of Righteous Harmony.
(b) Dance.
(c) Join him for a drink.
(d) Join the Victorians.

5. After watching the performance of the theater company on the barge, what does Fiona decide to do?
(a) Join the Fist of Righteous Harmony.
(b) Help her father to seek the Alchemist.
(c) Join the theater company.
(d) Return home to her mother.

6. What color hair does Brad's female friend have?
(a) Blonde.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Brown.

7. What sort of work does Nell want to do in Madame Ping's establishment?
(a) Perform as a ractor.
(b) Brew tea.
(c) Perform as a prostitute.
(d) Write scripts.

8. When Hackworth leaves his ex-wife and daughter, what does his daughter do?
(a) She tells Gwendolyn that she and Hackworth should remarry.
(b) She communicates her feelings for Hackworth through her Primer.
(c) She runs to her room and cries.
(d) She jumps on his mechanical horse and leaves with him.

9. What does the Fist of Righteous Harmony try to do in the Pudong suburb?
(a) Recruit new members.
(b) Burn the Seed lines that crisscross the city.
(c) Destroy Cryptnet.
(d) Burn the Feed lines that crisscross the city.

10. Who rescues Carl Hollywood from the Fist of Righteous Harmony?
(a) Colonel Spence.
(b) Constable Moore.
(c) Hackworth.
(d) Nell.

11. In the Primer, how does Princess Nell defeat King Coyote?
(a) She gives Wizard 2.0 a message with a programming error.
(b) She gives the King a message that Wizard 2.0 has programming errors.
(c) She gives Wizard 3.1 a message with a programming error.
(d) She gives Wizard 3.1 a message to destroy the King.

12. How does Nell protect herself from what the Drummers have implanted in everyone's blood?
(a) She brews and drinks a potion using a recipe from the Primer.
(b) She quickly designs a counter-organism.
(c) She cuts her wrist to drain some of the blood from her body.
(d) She uses the power of free thought to fight the blood's influence.

13. In "General Description of Life with the Constable," what lesson does Constable Moore teach Nell?
(a) Mediatrons are the best teachers.
(b) Books are a good substitute for experience.
(c) War is preferable to peace.
(d) Painful experiences are just as valuable as good ones.

14. After leaving Dr. X to travel to Shanghai, who does Hackworth find himself riding with?
(a) Lord Finkle-McGraw.
(b) Miranda and Carl Hollywood.
(c) Criminals on bicycles.
(d) Young Chinese women.

15. In the Primer, by the time Princess Nell reaches the land of King Coyote, what happened to her two remaining magical friends?
(a) One fled into the woods after a failed mission and the other was killed in battle.
(b) One flew away with another of his kind and the other was killed in battle.
(c) Both flew away with others of their kind.
(d) One flew away with another of his kind and the other fled into the woods after a failed mission.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who watches the three girls with Primers play outside the manor of Elizabeth's grandfather?

2. On what day of the week does Miss Stricken require girls to copy pages of historical documents?

3. In the Primer, how does Princess Nell become the Duchess of Turing?

4. How many floating orphanages are under the control of Dr. X?

5. In the Primer, Princess Nell learns that several castles are plagued by a problem caused by whom?

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