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

2. What gift does R-13 bring to D-503?
(a) His latest writings.
(b) A spray of flowers.
(c) A cheesecake.
(d) A bottle of wine.

3. Who, according to I-330, can excuse D-503 from work if she asks him to?
(a) The Benefactor.
(b) The doctor.
(c) The Guardians.
(d) Her mother.

4. What mathematical concept does D-503 recall from his childhood that frustrates him?
(a) Prime numbers.
(b) Irrational roots.
(c) Pairs.
(d) Algebra.

5. What does D-503 say about his first ride in the hidden elevator?
(a) "It was terror."
(b) "It was like Hell."
(c) "I was exhilarated."
(d) "I died."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's poet friend?

2. Who sits atop the Cube during the sentencing of the criminal?

3. Who is offended at the suggestion that he has an imagination?

4. What season is it when the novel begins?

5. What is the body of the Integral made of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does D-503 consider it his duty to do in writing "We"?

2. What is significant about D-503's visit with I-330 on the street corner?

3. How does D-503 feel about being followed by S?

4. How does the narrator describe the character known as O-90?

5. What is the Gas Bell?

6. Why does O-90 rush out of D-503's room?

7. When does D-503 realize, for the first time, that he is jealous of other men with I-330?

8. What images does D-503 see when he dreams for the first time in his life?

9. What is the nature of D-503's illness, according to the doctor at the Medical Office?

10. What is written in the first letter that D-503 receives?

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