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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. Where did Nathaniel meet Madison, Amity, and Lyle?
(a) At a bar near Matsumoto's loft.
(b) In high school.
(c) In college.
(d) At his first job in New York.

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

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

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

5. To what does Lucien compare old age?
(a) A garbage dump.
(b) A tar pit.
(c) A house without a kitchen.
(d) A bankrupt business.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isaac do for a living?

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

3. When Amity is trying to convince Nathaniel to move to New York, what does she say stands in his way?

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

5. Why is Lyle sad all of the time?

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