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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Tensional Forces - Chapter 13: A Model World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of Buckminster Fuller's visions was called a Cloud Nine. How did he define a Cloud Nine?
(a) A puffy pastry that would raise one's IQ.
(b) A terrible nuclear explosion.
(c) A heated, levitating domicile.
(d) A state of pure bliss.

2. Sebastian tells the reader that when he was five years old, the only way he could fall asleep was if what action was being done?
(a) If music was playing.
(b) If Nana's hand was on his back.
(c) If he was bedding down on the back porch.
(d) If he had a picture of his deceased parents near him.

3. What happens to cut the first youth group meeting short?
(a) Meredith gets caught making out with a boy.
(b) The curtains catch on fire.
(c) The Bible study group shows up early.
(d) Jared throws up.

4. What term does Sebastian use to refer to his instrument in the band that prompts Jared to tell him never to call it that again?
(a) Bass guitar.
(b) Axe.
(c) Electric banjo.
(d) Bass.

5. What is Jared's answer when Sebastian asks him for theories about whether Sid had stabbed Nancy or not?
(a) It is one of life's mysteries.
(b) Nancy killed Sid.
(c) Sid was too cool to be a murderer.
(d) Sid was framed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sebastian's father doing in the only photograph of him that Sebastian has ever seen?

2. What is NOT one thing Janice mentions to Sebastian as one of Jared's problems when she drops him off at the dome for the first time?

3. In what state do Nana and Sebastian live?

4. What side effect of his new medication does Jared admit to Sebastian upon Sebastian's first visit to the Whitcombs' house?

5. One of Buckminster Fuller's guiding principles says, "I will forge my journey" in a particular way "to keep accepting and totally boneheaded notions from blinding me to truth" (7). What is that the particular way the principle says one's journey should be forged?

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