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

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

3. How does the narrator characterize Miss Meuller's comment, on page 22, that Lucien is a "naughty boy"?
(a) Gleeful.
(b) Flirtatious.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Condescending.

4. When Amity is trying to convince Nathaniel to move to New York, what does she say stands in his way?
(a) Complacency.
(b) Fear.
(c) Stubbornness.
(d) Money.

5. When Nathaniel was younger, what did he dream of designing?
(a) Houses.
(b) Churches.
(c) Commercial buildings.
(d) City parks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nathaniel say history teaches us?

2. Which character works for Itami Systems?

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

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

5. When he is a young adult, what does Nathaniel think about moving to New York?

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