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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the story of the elevator crash being covered in the papers?
(a) Biased on the side of the Intuitionists.
(b) Biased to make the Intuitionists look bad.
(c) Careful to present both sides of the investigation.
(d) The story is not being covered at all.

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

3. What book did Lila Mae discover?
(a) Elevator Physics.
(b) The autobiography of Fanny Briggs.
(c) The History of Elevator Design.
(d) Theoretical Elevators, Volume 1.

4. What is "Lift"?
(a) A new rival philosophy.
(b) A professional association of elevator inspectors.
(c) An elevator industry magazine.
(d) The nickname for Frank Chancre.

5. Why is James Fulton an important figure?
(a) He is an opponent of Intuitionism.
(b) He is the founder of Intuitionism.
(c) He took Lila Mae under his wing and mentored her.
(d) He is Lila Mae's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Reed's connection to James Fulton?

2. Where does Lila Mae go to learn the details of the accident in Down: Part One?

3. What is the name for the design challenge that elevator researchers have been working on for years?

4. What revolutionary design innovation did Elisha Otis bring to the elevator industry?

5. Who is the Fanny Briggs Building named after?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is James Fulton?

2. What does Chancre want from Lila Mae?

3. What kind of student was Lila Mae at elevator school?

4. What happens at the Fanny Briggs building?

5. Who is Marie Claire Rogers?

6. What promise does Chancre make to the press?

7. What does Natchez reveal to Lila Mae about James Fulton?

8. Who is Johnny Shush?

9. What do the people in power believe about Marie Claire?

10. What is significant about Lila Mae as an inspector?

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