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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "Farewell" through "Waiting".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 34, what is said to change styles rapidly in New York in the months after September 11, 2001?
(a) Rhetoric.
(b) Pets.
(c) Hair.
(d) Policing.

2. What does Amity tell Nathaniel is happening to Passivityman?
(a) He is becoming fearful and mediocre.
(b) He is becoming a sell-out.
(c) He is becoming passive-aggressive.
(d) He is becoming lazy.

3. What does Nathaniel do with his spare time that his parents find worrisome?
(a) Skateboards.
(b) Sings in a band.
(c) Goes rock climbing.
(d) Draws comics.

4. 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 works on the floor of the New York Stock exchange.
(d) He is a bartender at a bar near Matsumoto's loft.

5. What industry does Madison work in?
(a) Public relations.
(b) Advertising.
(c) Law.
(d) Music performance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucien notice about the reasons given for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq?

2. Which of the possible consequences of a global computer failure that Nathaniel mentions could be considered foreshadowing?

3. How did Delphine learn English?

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

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

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