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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. To what does Lucien compare old age?
(a) A house without a kitchen.
(b) A bankrupt business.
(c) A garbage dump.
(d) A tar pit.

2. What surprises Lucien about what happened after Charlies's death?
(a) He still wanted to have parties.
(b) His in-laws called him more often than before.
(c) His friends grew distant from him.
(d) He did not commit suicide.

3. What does Lucien think about himself and his friends, in the wake of the September 11 attacks?
(a) They make the world worse just by living in it.
(b) They will never recover.
(c) They have been self-absorbed.
(d) They should pay more attention to their friends and families.

4. To what does Lucien compare the Earth on page 39?
(a) A sponge.
(b) A basketball.
(c) A marble.
(d) A chess piece.

5. When Lucien is thinking "One/two. On/off," what does his thoughts refer to (32)?
(a) Boolean logic gates in digital processes.
(b) The gallery's alarm system.
(c) A rhyme from the playground when he was a child.
(d) His system for shutting down everything in the gallery at night.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Nathaniel meet Delphine?

2. Which of these is one of the world's "three great religions" according to people like Miss Muller?

3. Of all of the things that Nathaniel can see from Matsumoto's loft, which is most important to him?

4. On page 31, what word does the narrator use to describe the terror alert colors?

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

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