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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 does the narrator's shadow suggest the two do so they don't get separated?
(a) Join back together.
(b) Trade hats.
(c) Hold hands.
(d) Tie their belts together.

2. How does the shadow know the Town has an exit?
(a) From the map.
(b) The Gatekeeper told him.
(c) Intuition.
(d) He found it.

3. At the end of the book, why does the narrator say he has to stay?
(a) He has responsibilities.
(b) He is afraid of the exit.
(c) He has to save the Librarian.
(d) He has grown to love dreamreading.

4. What are all the songs on the radio related to the morning the narrator spends at the librarian's house?
(a) The Winter.
(b) The Autumn.
(c) Farewells.
(d) Heartbreak.

5. What does the narrator do to kill time while waiting for his date with the librarian?
(a) Read the newspaper.
(b) Go jogging.
(c) Play a video game.
(d) Sit in a café.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the skulls when the narrator begins to play the music?

2. Why does the Gatekeeper leave the narrator alone with his shadow?

3. What has happened to the hole the men dug outside the narrator's window?

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

5. What does the narrator want to do when he arrives at the Library in Chapter 34?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "the encyclopedia wand"?

2. Describe the Town's power source.

3. How does the narrator explain his decision in Chapter 40?

4. Explain what the Professor says is a way out of the situation the narrator finds himself in in Chapter 27 and why it would work.

5. How does the narrator's shadow say he developed his plan of escape in Chapter 38?

6. How does the narrator react to the musical instruments in Chapter 28?

7. Why does the librarian wake the narrator up in the middle of the night at the beginning of Chapter 37? Explain what happens and how the librarian and narrator react.

8. Describe the taxi that picks up the narrator and the chubby girl after the exit from the underground in Chapter 31.

9. Which situation does the narrator define as "despair" in Chapter 33?

10. Explain what the Colonel tells the narrator about the digging of the hole in Chapter 30.

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