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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 detail does Nathaniel notice about Charlie and Lucien when they come to visit his family?
(a) They are boastful.
(b) They wear a lot of jewelry.
(c) They bring books to read.
(d) They are uncomfortable.

2. After Charlie became ill, what did Lucien feel was happening to the world?
(a) It was burning down around him.
(b) It was shattering like broken glass.
(c) It was melting away into nothing.
(d) It was all turning into paper.

3. If he stays in the Midwest, what does Nathaniel suspect will be true about his life when he is eighty years old?
(a) He will make partner at the architecture firm someday.
(b) He will be broke and have a terrible personal life.
(c) He will always regret the decision not to go to New York.
(d) He will end up taking care of his parents for many years.

4. Why is Lyle sad all of the time?
(a) He is homesick and hates New York.
(b) His boyfriend has moved to London.
(c) He and his boyfriend have broken up.
(d) He is heavily in debt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lucien is in the gallery imagining that he is with Charlie, what does he promise her?

2. What does Isaac do for a living?

3. How does the narrator characterize Miss Meuller's comment, on page 22, that Lucien is a "naughty boy"?

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

5. What incident seems to have sparked a permanent change in Madison?

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