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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Context" through "Continuity".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Russell's business relationship to Amity?
(a) He is her book agent.
(b) He is an employee of her P.R. firm.
(c) He is her lawyer.
(d) He works with her at the stock exchange.

2. What do Rose and Isaac ask Lucien to do when he calls Nathaniel after Nathaniel arrives in New York?
(a) Find Nathaniel a place to live.
(b) Get Nathaniel a job.
(c) Tell Nathaniel to go back home.
(d) Not tell Nathaniel that they asked Lucien to call.

3. What does Isaac do for a living?
(a) He makes vacuum cleaners.
(b) He is a rabbi.
(c) He repairs cars.
(d) He owns a deli.

4. What is Passivityman?
(a) A comic series.
(b) A television series.
(c) A band.
(d) A video game.

5. What has changed in Lucien's attitude about art since Charlie's death?
(a) He does not care about it the way he once did.
(b) He finds most art too "young" for his taste now.
(c) He now prefers much darker, more serious art.
(d) He wants to create it, not just sell it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nathaniel say that ceremonial occasions remind us about?

2. What is Passivityman doing when the reader first encounters him?

3. What does Nathaniel suggest that people might be desperate enough to burn in the wake of a global computer failure?

4. How are Nathaniel and Lucien related?

5. What later part of the narrative is Lucien tied to when, on pages 16-17, the narrator says that "It's as if he's got some part that's simply worn out and needs replacing"?

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