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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 do Rose and Isaac ask Lucien to do when he calls Nathaniel after Nathaniel arrives in New York?
(a) Get Nathaniel a job.
(b) Not tell Nathaniel that they asked Lucien to call.
(c) Find Nathaniel a place to live.
(d) Tell Nathaniel to go back home.

2. Which of the possible consequences of a global computer failure that Nathaniel mentions could be considered foreshadowing?
(a) The idea that hospitals might not be able to monitor patients.
(b) The idea that people might be trapped in high-rise elevators.
(c) The idea that widespread food shortages might occur.
(d) The idea that airplanes might lose their guidance systems and crash.

3. To whom does Nathaniel imagine telling the story of the Y2K computer issue?
(a) His readers.
(b) His grandchildren.
(c) His children.
(d) A historian.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides their minimal rent, what task are Nathaniel and his roommates performing in exchange for a place to live?

2. What ridiculous detail does Nathaniel give in his description of the last months of 1999?

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

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

5. Why is Lyle sad all of the time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Rose and Issac.

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

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

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

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