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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. Why do the men drink ashes at the conclusion of the Drummer ritual?
(a) To fully extinguish the fire.
(b) Drinking the ashes is much like smoking.
(c) To increase the flame of passion in their hearts.
(d) To integrate the sacrificed person with the community.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gwendolyn reveal to Hackworth regarding their divorce contract?

2. In the Primer, by the time Princess Nell reaches the land of King Coyote, what happened to her two remaining magical friends?

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

4. After the Drummers take turns with a woman during their ritual, what happens to the woman?

5. What, according to Dr. X, caused the destruction of Chinese society prior to the time of this novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Carl Hollywood's Hack," how do Carl Hollywood's activities in a teahouse begin to tie together the various main characters and plots in the novel?

2. In the final scene of the novel when Nell rescues Miranda from the Drummers, how are various subplots tied together into one cohesive whole?

3. In "Peculiar Practices in the Woods," what does Hackworth explain to his daughter regarding the activities of CryptNet?

4. In "Hackworth Awakes from a Dream," after waking from his dream of multiple sexual encounters and traveling back through the underwater tunnels, what clues does Hackworth find to indicate the passage of time?

5. In "Nell's Life at Dovetail," why is Nell not allowed to live with the other girls at Miss Matheson's Academy of the Three Graces?

6. In "From the Primer, Princess Nell Enters into the Lands of King Coyote," how does Princess Nell lose her last two remaining magical friends?

7. In "Hackworth in China," what does Dr. X see as the destruction of Chinese society in the novel?

8. In "A New Friend," what does the red-headed woman explain to Nell and Harv about the activities of the citizens of Dovetail?

9. In "From the Primer, Princess Nell Crosses the Trail of the Enigmatic Mouse Army," when grown-up Nell visits her ailing brother, Harv, what message does he share with her?

10. In "Carl Hollywood's Activities at the Parnasse," why is Miranda so interested in the technical aspects of the Primer's interactive features?

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