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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 does Isaac do for a living?
(a) He makes vacuum cleaners.
(b) He is a rabbi.
(c) He owns a deli.
(d) He repairs cars.

2. To whom does Nathaniel imagine telling the story of the Y2K computer issue?
(a) His readers.
(b) His children.
(c) His grandchildren.
(d) A historian.

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

4. Besides their minimal rent, what task are Nathaniel and his roommates performing in exchange for a place to live?
(a) They sort through and forward Matsumoto's mail.
(b) They are repainting the loft.
(c) They collect the rent from Matsumoto's other tenants.
(d) They take care of Matsumoto's cats.

5. What does Nathaniel suggest that people might be desperate enough to burn in the wake of a global computer failure?
(a) Stacks of money.
(b) Their designer clothing and shoes.
(c) Their children's elementary school artwork.
(d) Their old issues of the New York Review.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ridiculous detail does Nathaniel give in his description of the last months of 1999?

2. What does Nathaniel do with his spare time that his parents find worrisome?

3. To what does Nathaniel compare the sight of Manhattan from Matsumoto's loft?

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

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

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