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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Down: Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chancre promise the media?
(a) To resign in disgrace following the accident.
(b) To find the plans for the Black Box and make them public.
(c) To capture and imprison Lila Mae Watson.
(d) To investigate whether or not Intuitionist methods resulted in the Fanny Briggs crash.

2. Who arrives and tells John and Jim to leave Lila Mae's apartment?
(a) Mr. Reed.
(b) James Fulton.
(c) Natchez.
(d) Frank Chancre.

3. What is Mr. Reed's connection to James Fulton?
(a) He is James Fulton's half-brother.
(b) He was one of Fulton's early students and converts to intuitionism.
(c) He published Fulton's earliest works on Intuitionism.
(d) He was Fulton's academic rival in their early days at the Institute.

4. What happens at the Fanny Briggs Building?
(a) An elevator Lila Mae inspected crashes.
(b) Lila Mae cites the superintendent for a maintenance violation.
(c) The plans to the Black Box are discovered.
(d) Lila Mae receives a visit from John and Jim.

5. If made public, what effect would the Black Box plans have?
(a) It would bring racial equality in the city.
(b) It would make Empiricism look bad.
(c) It would bias the public against the whole elevator industry.
(d) It would be considered the end of Intuitionism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about Lila Mae's status as a black woman in her occupation?

2. Who is Natchez?

3. What are the respective philosophies of Chancre and Lever?

4. Why is James Fulton an important figure?

5. What kind of student was Lila Mae?

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