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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 the message in Adrian Veidt's office memo?
(a) There needs to be a new advertising campaign for Nostalgia perfume.
(b) Nostalgia perfume is to be repackaged.
(c) Production of nostalgia perfume is to be stepped up.
(d) Nostalgia perfume will be discontinued and replaced.

2. Which publication employs the interviewer?
(a) The Evening Standard.
(b) The Nova Express.
(c) The New Frontiersman.
(d) The National Enquirer.

3. What is Dan's flight ship called?
(a) Algernon.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Archie.
(d) Jughead.

4. Who interviews Adrian Veidt?
(a) Max Shea.
(b) Dan Dreiberg.
(c) Doug Roth.
(d) Doug Shea.

5. What information does the secondary story contain?
(a) The amazing powers of Dr Manhattan.
(b) The disapperance of the Black Freighter.
(c) The disappearance of Max Shea and other prominent people in the artistic world.
(d) The amazing disapperance of costumed heroes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the author of the inter-office memo?

2. What is the paper's attitude to costumed heroes?

3. What is the significance of the information given in this section?

4. What is making Max Shea happy as he boards the boat?

5. What it so special about the snowstorm ball?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what is happening in the wider world as Laurie and Dan begin their relationship.

2. What is unusual about Sally's response to interviewer questions about her rape by The Comedian?

3. In the context of the novel, what function does this section fulfill?

4. What is important about the Veidt Method?

5. Would you agree that the new world order would be a more truthful one?

6. Explain the inclusion of extracts from Sally Jupiter's scrapbook at this point in the novel.

7. What new material is provided in this section?

8. What concrete facts do we learn from this section of the novel?

9. How is the importance for Dan of his past costumed hero days conveyed to the reader/responder?

10. What is the political stance of the New Frontiersman?

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