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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 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."

2. What criminal activity does I-330 engage in when D-503 visits her room?
(a) Drinking alcohol.
(b) Using curse words.
(c) Drawing the shades.
(d) Burning the flag.

3. What does the narrator call "fits of epilepsy?"
(a) Anger.
(b) Music.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Inspiration.

4. To what does D-503 compare the feeling in his ribs?
(a) A cage.
(b) Iron rods.
(c) Suffocation.
(d) Piercing needles.

5. Which of these things is not present in D-503's dreams when he has them for the first time?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Clocks.
(d) Sap.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time in the morning do all citizens of the One State rise from bed?

2. What does R-13 always do when he talks?

3. What does I-330 call the old woman at the Ancient House?

4. What does D-503 claim he is producing instead of an ode to the One State?

5. Who writes D-503 a letter that prompts U- to pity D-503?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator describe the character called I-330?

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

5. How are members of the One State identified?

6. What does D-503 realize that his writings for the Integral have become?

7. How does D-503 see his relationships with R-13 and O-90?

8. What is the Ancient House?

9. What is the Gas Bell?

10. What is the narrator's purpose for writing the narrative that makes up "We"?

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