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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the smoke that can be seen every day in the Town?
(a) Gray.
(b) Brown.
(c) White.
(d) Yellow.

2. What topic of conversation makes the narrator uncomfortable in Chapter 5?
(a) The old man's sex drive.
(b) His own sex drive.
(c) The old man's granddaughter's sex drive.
(d) The INKlings' sex drive.

3. When the chubby girl and the narrator reach the lab, what does the chubby girl realize?
(a) It was the Factory that broken in to.
(b) It was the System that broken in to.
(c) The lab wasn't broken into.
(d) The INKlings took everything.

4. What does the Colonel give the narrator to help nurse him back to health?
(a) Soup.
(b) A blanket.
(c) Tea.
(d) A bandage.

5. The skull from which the narrator is supposed to read the first dream in Chapter 6 is from what animal?
(a) An INKling.
(b) A horse.
(c) A bear.
(d) A unicorn.

6. What is the old man working on in Chapter 3?
(a) Scent technology.
(b) Comparing skeletons.
(c) The mammalian palate.
(d) Diving technology.

7. What do the girl and the narrator appear to be walking on after the rock slab?
(a) A minefield.
(b) A train track.
(c) A honeycomb.
(d) A bridge.

8. What does the librarian try to get the narrator to hear while they are lying in bed?
(a) Her food digesting.
(b) People talking in the hall outside.
(c) The sound of the cars passing below the window.
(d) Her heartbeat.

9. How does the Librarian feel about the Pool?
(a) She is afraid of it.
(b) It reminds her of painful memories.
(c) She enjoys its calmness.
(d) It reminds her of better days.

10. Where does the narrator find the Pool?
(a) In the West.
(b) In the East.
(c) In the South.
(d) In the North.

11. Who calls and wakes the narrator up while he is sleeping after finishing his shuffling?
(a) Junior.
(b) The librarian.
(c) The girl in pink.
(d) The Professor.

12. What does the Colonel say dying might be for the beasts?
(a) Their salvation.
(b) A relief.
(c) A traumatic experience.
(d) A painful occurrence.

13. Is the narrator going up or down in the elevator at the beginning of the story?
(a) He isn't moving.
(b) He is going down.
(c) He isn't sure.
(d) He is going up.

14. What does the narrator say he uses his car for in Chapter 7?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Short outings.
(c) Long drives.
(d) Dates.

15. What does the narrator believe after he's slammed into the rock slab at the beginning of Chapter 23?
(a) He has a concussion.
(b) The girl misled him on purpose.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He will never get out of the underground.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the scientists compare the mind to in explaining the use of his consciousness to the narrator in Chapter 11?

3. What does the woman ask the narrator to put on at the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. What is it about the poster of Frankfurt at the supermarket that makes the narrator uneasy?

5. What does the narrator wish he could be, in thinking about the girl in the Skyline?

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