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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. What does Nana cite as the reason that she had not attended Buckminster Fuller's funeral?
(a) She had been angry at him for dying.
(b) She had been too grief-stricken.
(c) She had not been invited.
(d) She had missed her flight.

2. Jared says he does not play his electric guitar at the church because it would make God so mad that He would have to take what action?
(a) Kill Jared.
(b) Strangle an angel.
(c) Blow up the chapel.
(d) Send another flood.

3. One of Buckminster Fuller's guiding principles by which Sebastian and Nana live says, "Every day I will give myself wholly to" (7) what?
(a) Futurist thinking.
(b) My community.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Philanthropic action.

4. What reason does Nana cite for the need to get more money coming into the household?
(a) The water bill is going up.
(b) Sebastian will soon need money for a new soccer uniform.
(c) The heating bill is going up.
(d) Nana's social security payments will soon be cut off.

5. When Sebastian receives an email from Jared after his first visit to the Whitcombs' house, what does Jared write that he will do if Sebastian ever tries to touch him again?
(a) He will tell Janice.
(b) He will beat his ass.
(c) He will never speak to him again.
(d) He will throw a rock through the dome's glass.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Jared call Janice when she asks Jared if he has played his electric guitar for Sebastian?

3. What question does Sebastian write on his note card during the youth group activity?

4. What vision does Nana have when she is attuned to the signals of a Greater Intellect?

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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