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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33, Rainy-Day Laundry, Car Rental, Bob Dylan.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Professor say he did to the core consciousness of his test subjects?
(a) He shuffled them.
(b) He deleted them.
(c) He made them into visualized stories.
(d) He exchanged them with new information.

2. What do Junior and Big Boy do to the narrator, saying they have no choice?
(a) They castrate him.
(b) They slice his abdomen.
(c) They shave off his hair and cut his scalp.
(d) They gouge his eyes.

3. What does the Professor say will happen in regards to the narrator's three cognitive circuits?
(a) The narrator will end up stuck in circuit three with no hope of return.
(b) The first two circuits are going to burn out.
(c) The circuits have arranged themselves in a never-ending loop.
(d) The program the Professor wrote will kill the second circuit.

4. What do Junior and Big Boy tell the narrator to tell the System they were looking for?
(a) The notebook.
(b) The data.
(c) The skull.
(d) The safe.

5. What does the narrator say was his "training" for tuning in on a better life?
(a) Watching Casablanca.
(b) Divorcing his wife.
(c) Learning to sail.
(d) Reading The Greening of America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing the Professor asks for on seeing his granddaughter and the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 25?

2. Why do the people in the laundromat stare at the narrator when he begins drying the clothes?

3. How does the Professor explain the fact that the narrator was the only test subject that didn't die.

4. What does the narrator buy while waiting for the clothes to dry?

5. Why does the Colonel say the narrator's love for the Librarian may not be prudent?

(see the answer key)

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