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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What industry does Madison work in?
(a) Public relations.
(b) Law.
(c) Music performance.
(d) Advertising.

2. What incident seems to have sparked a permanent change in Madison?
(a) Breaking up with his girlfriend.
(b) Meeting his previously unknown sister.
(c) Moving into Matsumoto's loft.
(d) Quitting his job.

3. When Amity is trying to convince Nathaniel to move to New York, what does she say stands in his way?
(a) Money.
(b) Fear.
(c) Complacency.
(d) Stubbornness.

4. How does the narrator characterize Miss Meuller's comment, on page 22, that Lucien is a "naughty boy"?
(a) Condescending.
(b) Flirtatious.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Gleeful.

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

6. Which of these is one of the world's "three great religions" according to people like Miss Muller?
(a) Mormonism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Animism.

7. What does Nathaniel think motivated his grandparents to move to the Midwest?
(a) Panic.
(b) Family loyalty.
(c) Whimsy.
(d) Poverty.

8. What does Lucien think is "the usual stupid question" (17)?
(a) What it was like in New York on 9/11/2001.
(b) Whether he misses Charlie.
(c) How to make the world a better place.
(d) How he got so old.

9. What does Amity tell Nathaniel is happening to Passivityman?
(a) He is becoming passive-aggressive.
(b) He is becoming lazy.
(c) He is becoming fearful and mediocre.
(d) He is becoming a sell-out.

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

11. Who is Passivityman's nemesis?
(a) Captain Corporation.
(b) Admiral Archvillain.
(c) Ultrawealthyman.
(d) Wesley Worldbank.

12. 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 always regret the decision not to go to New York.
(b) He will make partner at the architecture firm someday.
(c) He will be broke and have a terrible personal life.
(d) He will end up taking care of his parents for many years.

13. When Nathaniel was younger, what did he dream of designing?
(a) Commercial buildings.
(b) City parks.
(c) Houses.
(d) Churches.

14. What does Lucien think about himself and his friends, in the wake of the September 11 attacks?
(a) They make the world worse just by living in it.
(b) They should pay more attention to their friends and families.
(c) They will never recover.
(d) They have been self-absorbed.

15. What is Passivityman doing when the reader first encounters him?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Working on his costume.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Scrolling through Facebook.

Short Answer Questions

1. What later part of the narrative is Lucien tied to when, on pages 16-17, the narrator says that "It's as if he's got some part that's simply worn out and needs replacing"?

2. After Charlie, Rose, and Isaac, who is the next person that Lucien imagines has come to see him in the gallery?

3. What is Passivityman?

4. What is the first thing that Lucien did when the World Trade Center was attacked?

5. In "Context," what does the narrative say is "unclear" for the roommates as they sit out on their terrace (16)?

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