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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "Farewell" through "Waiting".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nathaniel do with his spare time that his parents find worrisome?
(a) Goes rock climbing.
(b) Draws comics.
(c) Sings in a band.
(d) Skateboards.

2. What is Russell's business relationship to Amity?
(a) He is her book agent.
(b) He is her lawyer.
(c) He is an employee of her P.R. firm.
(d) He works with her at the stock exchange.

3. What does Lucien think New Yorkers look like as they hurry along the streets in the months after 9/11?
(a) Like their consciences are bothering them.
(b) Like they are trying to pretend they are not anxious and afraid.
(c) Like people unexpectedly caught out in the rain.
(d) Like robots programmed to go to work regardless of the condition of the city.

4. With whose point of view does the story end?
(a) Lucien's.
(b) Rose's.
(c) Nathaniel's.
(d) Charlie's.

5. 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) Cults announcing that aliens would come to Earth at midnight on New Year's Eve.
(c) Preppers sealing their families into shelters underground.
(d) Celebrity clairvoyants making wild predictions in the tabloids.

Short Answer Questions

1. What American freedom does Delphine mock?

2. In Nathaniel's memory of Charlie and Lucien's visit, how does he characterize the interactions among the adults?

3. What does Isaac do for a living?

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

5. To whom does Nathaniel imagine telling the story of the Y2K computer issue?

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