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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Nathaniel Recalls the Miracle" through "Home.".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ridiculous detail does Nathaniel give in his description of the last months of 1999?
(a) Cults announcing that aliens would come to Earth at midnight on New Year's Eve.
(b) Businesses desperately trying to teach their staffs how to do math without computerized cash registers.
(c) Celebrity clairvoyants making wild predictions in the tabloids.
(d) Preppers sealing their families into shelters underground.

2. Where did Nathaniel meet Madison, Amity, and Lyle?
(a) At his first job in New York.
(b) In high school.
(c) In college.
(d) At a bar near Matsumoto's loft.

3. After Charlie became ill, what did Lucien feel was happening to the world?
(a) It was burning down around him.
(b) It was melting away into nothing.
(c) It was shattering like broken glass.
(d) It was all turning into paper.

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

5. Which of the possible consequences of a global computer failure that Nathaniel mentions could be considered foreshadowing?
(a) The idea that airplanes might lose their guidance systems and crash.
(b) The idea that people might be trapped in high-rise elevators.
(c) The idea that widespread food shortages might occur.
(d) The idea that hospitals might not be able to monitor patients.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nathaniel's job in the narrative present?

2. What does Nathaniel say history teaches us?

3. What does Lucien end up saying to his assistant on page 8 when he wants to give her a piece of advice?

4. What is the name of Lucien's assistant?

5. What do Rose and Isaac ask Lucien to do when he calls Nathaniel after Nathaniel arrives in New York?

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