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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 suggest that people might be desperate enough to burn in the wake of a global computer failure?
(a) Their children's elementary school artwork.
(b) Stacks of money.
(c) Their designer clothing and shoes.
(d) Their old issues of the New York Review.

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

3. What is the name of Lucien's assistant?
(a) Advika.
(b) Sharmila.
(c) Devahuti.
(d) Rashana.

4. Besides their minimal rent, what task are Nathaniel and his roommates performing in exchange for a place to live?
(a) They collect the rent from Matsumoto's other tenants.
(b) They sort through and forward Matsumoto's mail.
(c) They take care of Matsumoto's cats.
(d) They are repainting the loft.

5. What is Nathaniel's job in the narrative present?
(a) He works on the floor of the New York Stock exchange.
(b) He works as a building manager for Matsumoto.
(c) He works in the New York subway's architecture department.
(d) He is a bartender at a bar near Matsumoto's loft.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Nathaniel meet Madison, Amity, and Lyle?

2. What ridiculous detail does Nathaniel give in his description of the last months of 1999?

3. What does Isaac do for a living?

4. What does Nathaniel think is happening to Passivityman?

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

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