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

2. What does Nathaniel say that ceremonial occasions remind us about?
(a) That ideas are bigger than any one person.
(b) That we should love one another.
(c) That time only moves in one direction.
(d) That life is unpredictable.

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

4. Why is Lyle sad all of the time?
(a) His boyfriend has moved to London.
(b) He is homesick and hates New York.
(c) He is heavily in debt.
(d) He and his boyfriend have broken up.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Nathaniel meet Madison, Amity, and Lyle?

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

4. How are Nathaniel and Lucien related?

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

(see the answer key)

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