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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Orest's last name?
(a) Mirador.
(b) Acquedor
(c) Equator.
(d) Mercator.

2. Who/what calls the event a "feathery plume"?
(a) Heinrich.
(b) The radio.
(c) The fire captain.
(d) The television.

3. Which child does Jack find at the simulated evacuation?
(a) Heinrich.
(b) Wilder.
(c) Denise.
(d) Steffie.

4. According to Jack, how is Chakravarty's English?
(a) Halting.
(b) Just OK.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Broken.

5. According to the video they watched in school, what happens when a rat is exposed to Nyodene D.?
(a) Rapid swelling.
(b) Instant rash.
(c) Sustained cancer.
(d) Urgent lumps.

6. Jack describes the gun as what ?
(a) Weapon-shaped.
(b) Cold steel.
(c) Light as a feather.
(d) Flesh-colored.

7. Who accompanies Jack to the asylum?
(a) Wilder.
(b) Heinrich.
(c) Babette.
(d) Steffie.

8. What is Jack's doctor's name?
(a) Divakaruni.
(b) Hohenzoller.
(c) Chakravarty.
(d) Hookstetter.

9. What is the name of the man Winnie turns up and whom she says is "the resident organizational genius" working on Dylar?
(a) Mr. Gray.
(b) Vernon Dickey.
(c) Willie Mink.
(d) Dr. Chakravarty.

10. What strange condition is the spill said to cause eventually?
(a) Deja vu.
(b) Precognition.
(c) Schadenfreude.
(d) Amnesia.

11. What magazine does Jack's doctor mention the latest issue of?
(a) The Lancet.
(b) The American Medical Journal.
(c) The New England Journal of Medicine.
(d) American Mortician.

12. Instead of a "plume", what does the weather center call the smoke?
(a) Toxic fog.
(b) Feathery cloud.
(c) Black billowing mass.
(d) Black billowing cloud.

13. Who is the "full sister" of Jack's oldest daughter (i.e., which other child has the same mother?)
(a) Dana.
(b) Mary Alice.
(c) Steffie.
(d) Denise.

14. What does the family eat when they go out for fast food?
(a) Chicken parts.
(b) Pizza.
(c) Hotdogs.
(d) Hamburgers.

15. What happens to the asylum?
(a) A car crashes into the side.
(b) It closes down.
(c) It collapses during the event.
(d) It catches fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car does the family's newspaper delivery person drive?

2. Where does Willie shoot Jack?

3. When Jack sees someone in the backyard, whom does he think it is?

4. Why does the character above say that s/he feels so good with Wilder?

5. Which family member is the first to know about the spill?

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