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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 is Darren doing at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Walking home.
(b) Drinking with friends.
(c) Hiding in the woods.
(d) Being interrogated.

2. How does Jonathan see his dissertation research putting him in Ziegler’s position?
(a) He has revealed the underlying chaos in language.
(b) He has revealed the pervasive hostility in language.
(c) He has documented the animalistic subtext to language.
(d) He has exposed the grudging psychology that uses language for its ends.

3. Where does Darren say he feels safe?
(a) In tunnels of brush.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) In his house.
(d) In Jonathan’s office.

4. What is the word for the figures Adam sees behind his eyes?
(a) Amoebas.
(b) Floaters.
(c) Phosphenes.
(d) Stars.

5. What caused Jane to start to receive obscene and threatening phone calls?
(a) Her taking Jonathan away from Rachel.
(b) Her lectures on homosexuality.
(c) Her book about abuse.
(d) Her promotion to department head.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drugs had Jonathan and Jane taken when they went to the Met?

2. What did Darren’s friends want him to do with Mandy?

3. What distinguishes Kenneth Erwood in Topeka?

4. Where is Adam at the beginning of the novel?

5. When were Jonathan and his first wife married?

Short Essay Questions

1. What importance did Jonathan’s therapist attach to his interest in the Ziegler story?

2. How does Jane say Sima was different from the other therapists at the Foundation?

3. What was Darren’s job, and how did he lose it?

4. What is Adam’s relationship with Dr. Erwood?

5. How does the narrator’s perspective shift as he describes Adam’s return to shore and the process of reuniting with Amber?

6. How does the narrator describe the importance of the spread beyond debate?

7. What was the memory Sima helped Jane uncover?

8. What was Jonathan studying for his dissertation?

9. What was the super power Darren believed he had?

10. How does the narrator characterize Adam’s role in the debate team?

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