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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening at in front of Headquarters when Lila Mae returns in Down: Part One?
(a) Orville Lever is delivering a political speech.
(b) Chancre is holding a press conference.
(c) Police are rounding up the black inspectors.
(d) Internal Affairs is searching Lila Mae's desk.

2. Which method of elevator inspection has a better accuracy rate?
(a) Intuitionism by 25%.
(b) Intuitionism by 10%.
(c) Empiricism by 10%.
(d) Empiricism by 25%.

3. What is the Black Box?
(a) The safe holding Fulton's missing papers.
(b) The name the inspectors give for their headquarters.
(c) The design for a perfect elevator.
(d) An elevator reserved for black people.

4. What does Chancre deny in Down: Part Two?
(a) Trying to buy the election.
(b) Sabotaging the Fanny Briggs elevator.
(c) Having the Black Box plans.
(d) Kidnapping Ben Urich.

5. What is Frank Chancre's position?
(a) He is the chief elevator inspector for the city.
(b) He is president of the Elevator Guild.
(c) He is the mayor of the city.
(d) He is head of the Institute for Vertical Transport.

6. What are the two opposing philosophies of elevator inspection?
(a) Verticality vs. Racism.
(b) Intuitionism vs. Empiricism.
(c) Conservatism vs. Liberalism.
(d) Theory vs. Fact.

7. What revolutionary design innovation did Elisha Otis bring to the elevator industry?
(a) The counterweight.
(b) The Black Box.
(c) The double door.
(d) The safety brake.

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

9. What does Lila Mae do when she wakes up after two men visited her apartment in Down: Part One?
(a) She tries to remember everything she can about her visit to the Fanny Briggs building.
(b) She goes downstairs and tries to find out whose house she is in.
(c) She locks the door and starts planning her escape from the city.
(d) She gets on the phone and calls headquarters to try to clear her name.

10. What does the radio dispatcher tell Lila Mae in Down: Part One?
(a) That the police are waiting to arrest Lila Mae.
(b) That Lila Mae has been fired.
(c) That Johnny Shush's men have taken over the offices.
(d) She has been summoned back to headquarters immediately.

11. What does John decide to eat while at Lila Mae's apartment?
(a) His own lunch.
(b) Some leftover pizza.
(c) A jar of jelly.
(d) An apple.

12. Where does Lila Mae wake up the next morning after two men visited her apartment in Down: Part One?
(a) In an elevator.
(b) In her converted room at elevator school.
(c) In a room at Intuitionist House.
(d) In her apartment.

13. Who does Lila Mae visit?
(a) Marie Claire Rogers.
(b) James Fulton.
(c) Ben Urich.
(d) Frank Chancre.

14. Why did Lila Mae have to live in a converted closet?
(a) Full-sized rooms were assigned by lottery.
(b) She was attending in secret and had to hide.
(c) She had applied too late for student housing.
(d) The full-sized rooms were "white only."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Urich discover in Down: Part Two?

2. What does Lila Mae Watson do for a living?

3. When Lila Mae was a child, what did her father ask her to do one night?

4. Who is James Fulton?

5. How does Johnny Shush abduct Lila Mae?

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