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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21: The Sublime Wonder of Human Physicality - Chapter 26: Return of the Rash.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Fearlessly.
(b) With others.
(c) Without pause.
(d) Alone.

3. When Sebastian calls Jared for the first time and Jared asks why he has called, what does Sebastian reveal to the reader that he then has the urge to do?
(a) Tell Jared his life story.
(b) Start crying.
(c) Hang up.
(d) Swear at Jared.

4. Whom does Jared name as the first punk rocker?
(a) General Patton.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Louis XIV.
(d) Marie Antoinette.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sebastian emerges from the dome after checking on Nana, what does Jared ask him if Nana is still doing?

2. About what location does Nana ask Sebastian out of the blue whether he has ever visited, causing him to think she really is clairvoyant?

3. 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?

4. What does Nana hope her modification of the geodesic dome will achieve?

5. What is revealed as the real reason for Buckminster Fuller's ejection from Harvard?

(see the answer key)

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