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

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nathaniel think is happening to Passivityman?

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

3. What does Amity tell Nathaniel is happening to Passivityman?

4. Which of these is one of the world's "three great religions" according to people like Miss Muller?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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