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

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

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

4. What ridiculous detail does Nathaniel give in his description of the last months of 1999?
(a) Businesses desperately trying to teach their staffs how to do math without computerized cash registers.
(b) Preppers sealing their families into shelters underground.
(c) Cults announcing that aliens would come to Earth at midnight on New Year's Eve.
(d) Celebrity clairvoyants making wild predictions in the tabloids.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lucien think about himself and his friends, in the wake of the September 11 attacks?

3. What has changed in Lucien's attitude about art since Charlie's death?

4. Where did Nathaniel live before he moved to New York?

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

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