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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason for Miss Stricken's highly repetitive and useless tasks at the Academy?
(a) To allow the other teachers some time away from the classroom.
(b) To teach good penmanship.
(c) She takes joy from punishing the students.
(d) To teach patience and obedience.

2. When Nell leaves the Academy, into what area does she travel?
(a) The Leased Territories.
(b) Bespoke.
(c) The Pudong Economic Zone.
(d) Atlantis/Shanghai.

3. 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) Burn the Feed lines that crisscross the city.
(d) Destroy Cryptnet.

4. In the Primer, how many castles must Princess Nell visit to recover what was stolen from her by the crow?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

5. Describe the woman at the center of the Drummer ritual.
(a) She is naked and covered in light tattoos.
(b) She carries a golden sword.
(c) She wears a robe of blue silk and carries a drum.
(d) She has a skull gun and red hair.

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

7. From the teahouse in Shanghai, what is Carl Hollywood able to control?
(a) The theatrical performance viewed by Hackworth and Fiona.
(b) The Feed.
(c) Hackworth's mechanical horse.
(d) The information Nell obtains from her Primer.

8. As Nell nears the end of the Primer, what does she wonder?
(a) Nell wonders if the Primer is forcing her into a role she does not want.
(b) Nell wonders if the Primer is a conduit between herself and the Feed.
(c) Nell wonders if the Primer is a conduit between herself and the Fist of Righteous Harmony.
(d) Nell wonders if the Primer is a conduit between herself and another human who really loves her.

9. When a grown-up Nell visits Harv in the Leased Territories, in what condition does she find him?
(a) Harv breathes through a tube linked to a matter compiler due to respiratory problems.
(b) Harv breathes through a tube linked to a matter compiler due to ingesting too much food made of mites.
(c) Harv is linked to a matter compiler that regulates his heartbeat due to heart problems.
(d) Harv's forehead is linked to a matter compiler due to a bad experience at a mod parlor.

10. What are the three important principles taught in the Academy?
(a) Boom, joy, and free thought.
(b) Obedience, brilliance, and joy.
(c) Boom, brilliance, and joy.
(d) Obedience, boom, and joy.

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

12. Hackworth and Fiona find a group called the "Reformed Distributed Republic" based on information obtained in what way?
(a) From a mediatron.
(b) From an encoded message in Fiona's Primer.
(c) From a messenger of Dr. X.
(d) From a fortune cookie.

13. How do the Primers that are given to the many Han girls differ from Nell's Primer?
(a) Artificial Intelligence rather than a ractor.
(b) No gold lettering on the covers.
(c) No difference.
(d) Thinner and made with low-quality materials.

14. When Carl Hollywood finds Nell near the end of the novel, what is she doing?
(a) Calling on the Queen of the Drummers.
(b) Calling on the Queen of the Fists.
(c) Calling on the Queen of the Mouse Army.
(d) Calling on the Queen of the Seed.

15. Madame Ping, who hires Nell in her first job, runs what sort of establishment?
(a) A bakery.
(b) A theatre.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A brothel.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Primer, Nell encounters an army of mice who ride on what?

2. On her deathbed, what does Mrs. Matheson say to Nell?

3. The workers of Dovetail produce goods for whom?

4. What sort of work does Nell want to do in Madame Ping's establishment?

5. At her new place of employment, who does Nell befriend?

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