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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. How are Nathaniel and Lucien related?
(a) Nathaniel is Lucian's cousin's son.
(b) Nathaniel is Lucien's brother's son.
(c) Nathaniel is Lucian's son-in-law.
(d) Nathaniel is Lucien's nephew by marriage.

2. 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) Preppers sealing their families into shelters underground.
(c) Celebrity clairvoyants making wild predictions in the tabloids.
(d) Businesses desperately trying to teach their staffs how to do math without computerized cash registers.

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

4. 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 people might be trapped in high-rise elevators.
(c) The idea that airplanes might lose their guidance systems and crash.
(d) The idea that hospitals might not be able to monitor patients.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Lucien think is "the usual stupid question" (17)?

4. When Nathaniel was younger, what did he dream of designing?

5. Besides their minimal rent, what task are Nathaniel and his roommates performing in exchange for a place to live?

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