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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 46-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Trout's parents study?
(a) Birds.
(b) Reptiles.
(c) Mammals.
(d) Snakes.

2. What was Trout doing when the timequake went into effect?
(a) Writing.
(b) Singing.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Reading.

3. Where does Monica Pepper work?
(a) At a restaurant.
(b) At a theatre.
(c) The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
(d) At a drive in.

4. What did people not know existed until many years later?
(a) Another galaxy.
(b) Meteorites.
(c) Ice ages.
(d) Another hemisphere.

5. What was Monica working on when the timequake went into effect?
(a) Taking a shower.
(b) Working on the Academy budget.
(c) Walking her dog.
(d) Typing a letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Fleon commit suicide?

2. Who hopes to find an "important message from a higher power" in Trout's writing?

3. What does the author believe should be repudiated now that he is older?

4. Why do no emergency response teams ever come to anyone's help?

5. Where was the atomic bomb invented?

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