This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Welcome to the Future - Chapter 6: The True Path of the Voyager.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of shape composes Sebastian and Nana's geodesic dome?
(a) Spheres.
(b) Octagons.
(c) Isoceles triangles.
(d) Equilateral triangles.

2. When Sebastian first decides to disobey Nana by learning about punk rock music online, what subject does he continue to study across the room between web searches?
(a) Geometry.
(b) Algebra.
(c) Trigonometry.
(d) Calculus.

3. When Nana is allowed to go home after three days in the hospital, what are her first words to Sebastian after she calls his name in the night?
(a) "You are mine" (30).
(b) "Your parents would be proud" (30).
(c) "Carry on without me" (30).
(d) "I am yours" (30).

4. What is different about Sebastian and Nana's home in relation to the other homes in town?
(a) It is octagonal in shape.
(b) It is a glass dome.
(c) It is ten stories tall.
(d) It is made of metal.

5. What brand of cigarettes does Jared smoke?
(a) Camels.
(b) American Spirits.
(c) Lucky Strikes.
(d) Marlboros.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What object is present in the framed photographs of Nana and Sebastian's house that Sebastian says no one ever notices unless he points it out?

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

4. For what sole purpose does Nana keep an active phone line in the house?

5. What does Sebastian say to the Whitcombs just after he tells them his name?

(see the answer key)

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