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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Context" through "Continuity".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ridiculous detail does Nathaniel give in his description of the last months of 1999?
(a) Cults announcing that aliens would come to Earth at midnight on New Year's Eve.
(b) Celebrity clairvoyants making wild predictions in the tabloids.
(c) Preppers sealing their families into shelters underground.
(d) Businesses desperately trying to teach their staffs how to do math without computerized cash registers.

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

3. What do Rose and Isaac ask Lucien to do when he calls Nathaniel after Nathaniel arrives in New York?
(a) Get Nathaniel a job.
(b) Not tell Nathaniel that they asked Lucien to call.
(c) Find Nathaniel a place to live.
(d) Tell Nathaniel to go back home.

4. What later part of the narrative is Lucien tied to when, on pages 16-17, the narrator says that "It's as if he's got some part that's simply worn out and needs replacing"?
(a) The discussion of Nathaniel's parents' immigration.
(b) The discussion of superpowers.
(c) The description of 9/11.
(d) The argument between Amity and Madison.

5. Which of the possible consequences of a global computer failure that Nathaniel mentions could be considered foreshadowing?
(a) The idea that people might be trapped in high-rise elevators.
(b) The idea that widespread food shortages might occur.
(c) The idea that airplanes might lose their guidance systems and crash.
(d) The idea that hospitals might not be able to monitor patients.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Nathaniel and Lucien related?

2. When Amity is trying to convince Nathaniel to move to New York, what does she say stands in his way?

3. What does Nathaniel think motivated his grandparents to move to the Midwest?

4. What does Isaac do for a living?

5. What does Nathaniel suggest that people might be desperate enough to burn in the wake of a global computer failure?

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