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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. To which of the following games does Sam compare his experience navigating a crowd?
(a) Frogger.
(b) Centipede.
(c) Pong.
(d) Galaga.

2. What is the name of the first of Sadie’s games Sam plays?
(a) EmilyBlaster.
(b) Ichigo.
(c) Solution.
(d) Master of the Revels.

3. On which street does Marx find office space for Sadie, Sam, and himself?
(a) Abbot Kinney.
(b) Monsignor Harold.
(c) Brother John.
(d) Friar Isaac.

4. In what band does Sadie’s boyfriend play?
(a) Failure to Communicate.
(b) Successful Obfuscation.
(c) Chocolate Eyeball.
(d) Megalith.

5. Where does Marx suggest Sam ask Sadie to work on a game with him?
(a) Glass Flowers.
(b) Myers House.
(c) Club Passim.
(d) Fogg Museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following does "II. Influences" begin?

2. Which of the following companies makes an offer to buy Sam and Sadie’s first game?

3. What is the name of Dov’s famous game?

4. Which shrine do Marx and Sadie visit together?

5. In what month does the novel begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sam resist Sadie’s idea about a game within a game?

2. How does Dov recommend addressing failure?

3. Why does Sadie not want Alice to meet Sam?

4. How does Sam know what he knows about his father?

5. Why does Sam dislike sex?

6. How do Simon and Ant cause Sadie to feel old?

7. Why does Sam not inquire into the circumstances of Sadie’s depression?

8. What does Mazer assert is the alternative to appropriation (78)?

9. How does Sam posit he can find Sadie again after she leaves him in the subway station?

10. How does the novel remark that “To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk” (21)?

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