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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shape do I-330's eyebrows make?
(a) A square.
(b) A squiggle.
(c) An X.
(d) An arch.

2. What does I-330 call the old woman at the Ancient House?
(a) Friend.
(b) Nana.
(c) Mom.
(d) Grandmother.

3. What kind of dress does I-330 put on when D-503 visits her room for the first time?
(a) Black.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Silk.
(d) Orange.

4. How many identities does D-503 "see" in himself?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) One.

5. What is the number of the narrator?
(a) Yevgeny Zamyatin.
(b) D-500.
(c) Johnny 5.
(d) D-503.

6. Who writes D-503 a letter that prompts U- to pity D-503?
(a) O-90.
(b) The Benefactor.
(c) His mother.
(d) I-330.

7. Why do the doctors not operate on D-503's illness?
(a) I-330 tells them not to.
(b) D-503 runs away.
(c) It will interfere with the building of the Integral.
(d) They do not care if he dies.

8. What term does D-503 use to describe his hands?
(a) Small.
(b) Calloused.
(c) Childlike.
(d) Apelike.

9. To what shape does D-503 compare his relationship with R-13 and O-90?
(a) A cone.
(b) A circle.
(c) An X.
(d) A triangle.

10. How do I-330 and D-503 get to the Ancient House?
(a) On horseback.
(b) They walk.
(c) By aero.
(d) By car.

11. What season is it when the novel begins?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

12. What is R-13 given the task of turning into a poem?
(a) A song.
(b) A death sentence.
(c) A math problem.
(d) A science lesson.

13. What is the name of a "modern" song that the narrator listens to?
(a) "Unrequited Love."
(b) "Science is Sexy."
(c) "I Need You."
(d) "Pythagoras' Trousers."

14. What is the name of the newspaper that the narrator refers to in the first lines of the novel?
(a) The One State Star.
(b) The One State Gazette.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Enquirer.

15. To whom does I-330 refer as her "constant admirer?"
(a) The Benefactor.
(b) R-13.
(c) D-503.
(d) S-4711.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the citizens of the One State call their uniforms?

2. What term does R-13 use to describe O-90 when discussing her relationship with D-503?

3. How many times does the narrator kiss O-90's eyes after their walk?

4. What facial feature of R-13's does D-503 describe as "Negroid?"

5. When S-4711 finds D-503 is out in the street at "seventeen," where does S-4711 take him?

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