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

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

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

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

5. What is the first thing that Lucien did when the World Trade Center was attacked?
(a) Went to visit Charlie's grave.
(b) Went to check on his gallery.
(c) Went to bed with a glass of scotch.
(d) Went to check on Nathaniel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Passivityman doing when the reader first encounters him?

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

3. What does Nathaniel think is happening to Passivityman?

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

5. What industry does Madison work in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lucien do with Matsumoto's loft in the time period after the September 11th attacks, and why?

2. What insight does Lucien have about aging in "Information"?

3. What impact did witnessing the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center have on Nathaniel and his friends?

4. What did Amity tell Nathaniel about moving to New York, and how did he respond?

5. What is Lucien doing when he hears about the attack on the World Trade Center, and what is the rhetorical point being made by these details?

6. What does Lucien feel so embarrassed about in "Information"?

7. What does Passivityman fight against, and how is the fight going?

8. What comparison does Nathaniel make between his roommates and Passivityman?

9. How did Lucien and Charlie's visit to Nathaniel's family impact him?

10. What question does Miss Mueller ask Lucien in "Opportunism," and why does he respond the way he does?

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