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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Isaac do for a living?
(a) He owns a deli.
(b) He repairs cars.
(c) He makes vacuum cleaners.
(d) He is a rabbi.

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

4. When Lucien is in the gallery imagining that he is with Charlie, what does he promise her?
(a) He will find another apartment for Nathaniel.
(b) He will try to think more kindly about Rose and Isaac.
(c) He will put more energy into the gallery.
(d) He will find another woman to love and be happy again.

5. From the story's context, when must Charlie have died?
(a) Shortly after the September 11th attack.
(b) In the year 2003.
(c) In the year 2000.
(d) Before the year 2000.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Nathaniel suggest that people might be desperate enough to burn in the wake of a global computer failure?

5. What is the name of Lucien's assistant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the meaning of the title of the section of the story called "Innocence"?

2. What is the "View" that the third section of the story is titled for, and why is it special?

3. Why did Nathaniel's friends come to live with him?

4. Where are Nathaniel and his friends, in the narrative present, and what are they doing?

5. How does the "View" referred to in the third section of the story change in its significance for Nathaniel between his arrival in New York and the narrative present?

6. What is the "Reunion" referred to in the title of the sixth section of the story?

7. What qualities does Nathaniel have that worry his parents?

8. What phrase makes Lucien think about the frog and the boiling water, and why?

9. Describe Rose and Issac.

10. Explain the non-event that "Nathaniel Recalls the Miracle" is centered on.

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