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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 28-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Chapter 12's title?
(a) "End of the World Delight."
(b) "A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils."
(c) "Secret Agent X-9."
(d) "Vice-president in Charge of Volcanoes."

2. How does John describe the aesthetic of Ilium, New York, in Chapter 13?
(a) Ugly.
(b) Delicate.
(c) Pretty.
(d) Beautiful.

3. What is the title of Chapter 28?
(a) "No More Mud."
(b) "Mayonnaise."
(c) "Protein."
(d) "A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils."

4. How old was Newt Hoenikker when his father died?
(a) 18.
(b) 22.
(c) 16.
(d) 13.

5. What does John claim Alfred Nobel invented in Chapter 32?
(a) Gunpowder.
(b) Steel.
(c) Dynamite.
(d) The submarine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What college is Newt Hoenikker attending when the narrator writes to him in Chapter 4?

2. What does Dr. Breed say that "pure research men" work on in Chapter 21?

3. What is the name of the book that was given to Dr. Felix Hoenikker from a man in prison about the end of the world?

4. What is Dr. Breed's position at the Research Laboratory of the General Forge and Foundry Company?

5. What is Dr. Breed's first name?

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