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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. What kind of student was Lila Mae?
(a) Top of her class.
(b) Lazy and under-performing.
(c) Outspoken and political.
(d) Quiet and dedicated.

2. Who is running against Chancre?
(a) Lila Mae Watson.
(b) James Fulton..
(c) Johnny Shush.
(d) Orville Lever.

3. Who is with Mr. Reed when Lila Mae arrives the location she goes to after leaving Shush's?
(a) Marie Claire Rogers.
(b) Orville Lever.
(c) Frank Chancre.
(d) James Fulton.

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

5. Who is the "screaming man"?
(a) James Fulton.
(b) Mr. Reed.
(c) Ben Urich.
(d) Frank Chancre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Empiricism?

2. With whom do Frank Chancre, John Corrigan and Jim Murphy also have connections?

3. What did Grady Jr. do when he went on a movie date with Lila Mae?

4. What does John do to Urich in Down: Part Two?

5. How many people of color had been trained as elevator inspectors when Lila Mae was studying to become one?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was significant about Elisha Otis' invention of the safety brake?

2. What happens at the Fanny Briggs building?

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

4. What does Marie Claire tell Lila Mae in Down: Part Two?

5. Who is Johnny Shush?

6. What does Lila Mae decide she is going to do about the Black Box?

7. Why does Frank Chancre want to find the Black Box plans before anyone else?

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

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

10. What do Jim and John tell Urich about the Black Box story?

(see the answer keys)

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