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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 Lucien end up saying to his assistant on page 8 when he wants to give her a piece of advice?
(a) "Don't believe everything you hear."
(b) "Don't worry."
(c) "Don't bother about the phones."
(d) "Don't feel sad."

2. After Charlie, Rose, and Isaac, who is the next person that Lucien imagines has come to see him in the gallery?
(a) Nathaniel.
(b) The president.
(c) Miss Mueller.
(d) His deceased brohter.

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

4. What does Lucien think is "the usual stupid question" (17)?
(a) What it was like in New York on 9/11/2001.
(b) How he got so old.
(c) How to make the world a better place.
(d) Whether he misses Charlie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nathaniel think is happening to Passivityman?

2. What does Nathaniel say that ceremonial occasions remind us about?

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

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

5. What industry does Madison work in?

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