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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 does Lila Mae feel about her fellow elevator inspectors?
(a) She does not like them.
(b) She thinks she is better than the rest of them.
(c) She admires them.
(d) She is intimidated by them.

2. What is the attitude of Empiricists toward Intuitionism?
(a) They try to emulate the Intuitionists.
(b) They admire but distrust Intuitionists.
(c) They feel superior because Empiricism has a better track record.
(d) They look down on them and consider them "Houdinis."

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

4. Who dropped Lila Mae off on her first day of elevator school?
(a) Her father.
(b) Chuck Gould.
(c) James Fulton.
(d) Orville Lever.

5. Who replaced James Fulton as head of the Institute?
(a) Fanny Briggs.
(b) Orville Lever.
(c) Frank Chancre.
(d) Mr. Reed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lila Mae do when she wakes up after two men visited her apartment in Down: Part One?

2. What does Jim reveal to Urich in Down: Part Two?

3. Who is running against Chancre?

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

5. What does Lila Mae tell Mr. Reed about the next day after she was at Shush's?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens at the Fanny Briggs building?

3. Who is Mr. Reed?

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

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

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

7. What is the "Black Box?"

8. What happens to Urich?

9. Who is Ben Urich?

10. What is Empiricism?

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