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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Natchez reveal about Fulton?
(a) Fulton's Black Box is a lie.
(b) Fulton arranged the Fanny Briggs crash.
(c) Fulton is still alive.
(d) He is really Fulton's nephew.

2. What does Marie Claire claim happened the day of Fulton's funeral?
(a) A package containing the Black Box plans was delivered.
(b) The house was broken into and Fulton's papers were stolen.
(c) Fulton revealed that he had never really died.
(d) ll the elevators in the city stopped working.

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

4. Why is Jim Murphy's personality like?
(a) He is honest and upstanding.
(b) He is quiet and violent.
(c) He is outgoing and talkative.
(d) He is sneaky and unreliable.

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

6. 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 Lila Mae has already been fired.
(c) That Frank Chancre was working with Johnny Shush.
(d) That Lift Magazine received the Black Box plans.

7. What is the "phantom passenger"?
(a) The ghost of James Fulton who rides the elevators at the Institute.
(b) The name of a philosophical challenge among elevator experts.
(c) The belief that all elevators, by their nature, are holding passengers at all times.
(d) The mysterious figure who sabotaged the Fanny Briggs elevator.

8. Where do Lila Mae and the "screaming man" cross paths?
(a) In the elevator.
(b) On the street.
(c) On the stairs.
(d) At Fulton's house.

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

10. How does Johnny Shush abduct Lila Mae?
(a) One of his men replace Lila Mae's driver.
(b) One of his men traps her in the house before she can leave.
(c) He does it himself to make sure no mistakes are made.
(d) One of his men grabs her and forces her into the car.

11. Who questions Chuck Gould about Lila Mae?
(a) Frank Chancre.
(b) Raymond Coombs.
(c) Elisha Otis.
(d) Burt Arbogast.

12. What are the respective philosophies of Chancre and Lever?
(a) Chancre is an Empiricist and Lever is an Intuitionist.
(b) Lever and Chancre are both Intuitionists.
(c) Lever is an Empiricist and Chancre is an Intuitionist.
(d) Lever and Chancre are both Empiricists.

13. What happens to Urich in Down: Part Two?
(a) He is brought to Shush's hideout and tortured.
(b) He gets a promotion for his excellent reporting.
(c) He is fired for writing a false story about the Black Box.
(d) He is reassigned to the Lever campaign.

14. What does Lila Mae learn about Fulton's background?
(a) He used to be an Empiricist.
(b) He was really a black man.
(c) He plagiarized his book, Theoretical Elevators.
(d) He was secretly married to Marie Claire Rogers.

15. 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) Pages from Fulton's journals.
(d) Politcal blackmail from Chancre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Lila Mae discover?

2. Who questions and tries to make a deal with Lila Mae in Down: Part Two?

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

4. How does Lila Mae determine what is wrong with the elevators she inspects?

5. Who is the Fanny Briggs Building named after?

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