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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. On which of the following does Sadie focus?
(a) Knott’s Landing.
(b) Myre Landing.
(c) Kakariko.
(d) Madden.

2. In what year is Sam born?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1986.

3. In which of the following had Sam’s mother performed?
(a) The Music Man.
(b) Cabaret.
(c) A Chorus Line.
(d) My Fair Lady.

4. What is the name of Dov’s gaming engine?
(a) Xerxes.
(b) Aeneas.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) Romulus.

5. In which of the following does Sam’s father live?
(a) Malibu.
(b) Hollywood.
(c) Beverly Hills.
(d) Oxnard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following games is Sam playing when Sadie meets him?

2. Which of the following graces the wall of Sadie’s college apartment?

3. Which of the following flowers does Sadie enjoy?

4. Which of the following does Marx read while accompanying Sam to his orthopedist?

5. Which of the following do Sadie and Dov play together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Sadie obliged to give up while Alice is in the hospital?

2. How does Marx demonstrate that he works well as a game producer?

3. How does a player win the first level of Mapletown?

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

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

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

7. Why do video game characters typically remain the same throughout their games, per the novel (104)?

8. What is the main critique Sam has of the first of Sadie’s games that he plays?

9. Why does Marx’s mother disdain computers?

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

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