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

2. What does D-503 claim he is producing instead of an ode to the One State?
(a) A memoir.
(b) An adventure story.
(c) An obituary.
(d) A lie.

3. How many times does the narrator kiss O-90's eyes after their walk?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

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

5. What is the name of the standards a woman must meet before being able to bear children?
(a) The Mother Code.
(b) The Standards.
(c) The Maternal Norm.
(d) The Parental Guide.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does a citizen have to report a crime to the Guardians?

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

3. What is the narrator's job?

4. What does D-503 call "the starting point of all the coordinates?"

5. What is the name of the newspaper that the narrator refers to in the first lines of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What secret does D-503 discover about the Ancient House when he visits it alone?

3. How does D-503 claim to feel about I-330 during their initial encounters?

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

5. What does the narrator mean when he refers to his "shaggy self?"

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

7. What is the One State's perception of love?

8. What is the Ancient House?

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

10. What is the Gas Bell?

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