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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) Celebrity clairvoyants making wild predictions in the tabloids.
(b) Businesses desperately trying to teach their staffs how to do math without computerized cash registers.
(c) Cults announcing that aliens would come to Earth at midnight on New Year's Eve.
(d) Preppers sealing their families into shelters underground.

2. What does Nathaniel say history teaches us?
(a) If we do not study the past, we will inevitably repeat unhelpful patterns.
(b) Systems and institutions favor the powerful by their very nature.
(c) Great people rise to prominence regardless of their circumstances.
(d) There are too many variables for humans to be effective at thinking ahead.

3. What is the name of Lucien's assistant?
(a) Sharmila.
(b) Advika.
(c) Devahuti.
(d) Rashana.

4. From the story's context, when must Charlie have died?
(a) In the year 2000.
(b) In the year 2003.
(c) Before the year 2000.
(d) Shortly after the September 11th attack.

5. What is Nathaniel's job in the narrative present?
(a) He works as a building manager for Matsumoto.
(b) He works in the New York subway's architecture department.
(c) He is a bartender at a bar near Matsumoto's loft.
(d) He works on the floor of the New York Stock exchange.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Russell's business relationship to Amity?

2. When Lucien is in the gallery imagining that he is with Charlie, what does he promise her?

3. What made tears come into Nathaniel's eyes the first time he saw Matsumoto's loft?

4. Where did Nathaniel live before he moved to New York?

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

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