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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lila Mae decide to do at the end of Down: Part One?
(a) Find the Black Box plans.
(b) Work for Lever's campaign.
(c) Go back to work.
(d) Resign as an inspector.

2. What does Otis' innovation do for the city?
(a) It marks the arrival of "verticality."
(b) It marks the arrival of the Black Box.
(c) It marks the arrival of the "second ascension."
(d) It marks the beginning of Intuitionism.

3. What does Chuck Gould tell Lila Mae in Down: Part One?
(a) That Internal Affairs suspects Lila Mae of sabotaging the Fanny Briggs elevator.
(b) That Lift Magazine received the Black Box plans.
(c) That Lila Mae has already been fired.
(d) That Frank Chancre was working with Johnny Shush.

4. What is true about James Fulton at the beginning of the novel?
(a) He was on his deathbed.
(b) He is running for Elevator Guild president.
(c) He has been dead for 20 years.
(d) He has gone into hiding.

5. Who is James Fulton?
(a) The head of the Elevator Department.
(b) The founder of Intuitionism.
(c) A candidate for Elevator Guild President.
(d) Lila Mae's father.

6. At elevator school, how did Lila Mae perform on her oral examination?
(a) She passed it without difficulty.
(b) She just barely passed it.
(c) She failed miserably.
(d) She was just shy of passing it.

7. How many people of color had been trained as elevator inspectors when Lila Mae was studying to become one?
(a) 23.
(b) 7.
(c) 12.
(d) 1.

8. Who is Johnny Shush?
(a) A local organized crime boss.
(b) The top elevator inspector in the city.
(c) A third-party candidate for Guild president.
(d) A prominent Intuitionist.

9. What do Lila Mae and Natchez initially have in common?
(a) They have both been falsely accused.
(b) They are both elevator inspectors.
(c) They were both students of James Fulton.
(d) They are both black.

10. What is unusual about the fact that James Fulton's initials were on the inspection record?
(a) Lila Mae realized that they are forged.
(b) He was head of the elevator Institute at the time.
(c) They were dated before Fulton had been born.
(d) He was dead on the date of the inspection.

11. How does Lila Mae respond to the summons back to base in Down: Part One?
(a) She lies about not hearing it in order to buy her time.
(b) She reports straight back to base to face the consequences.
(c) She goes to the press and claims that she has been framed.
(d) She tells the dispatcher that she is taking her vacation time.

12. Who does Jim and John work for?
(a) Orville Lever.
(b) James Fulton.
(c) Frank Chancre.
(d) Johnny Shush.

13. What did Lever receive in the mail?
(a) The plan to set up Lila Mae for the Fanny Brigs crash.
(b) A commendation from the city's mayor.
(c) Politcal blackmail from Chancre.
(d) Pages from Fulton's journals.

14. What is the name for the design challenge that elevator researchers have been working on for years?
(a) The New Cities.
(b) The Black Box.
(c) The Second Elevation.
(d) The Next Generation.

15. Who brings Lila Mae breakfast in Down: Part One?
(a) Reed.
(b) Chancre.
(c) Fulton.
(d) Natchez.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Empiricism?

2. What does Chancre promise the media?

3. Where is Lila Mae taken in Down: Part Two?

4. What does Natchez want to do in Down: Part Two?

5. Where does Lila Mae wake up the next morning after two men visited her apartment in Down: Part One?

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