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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 bodily function does the narrator find himself pondering in the escape route from the underground?
(a) Erections.
(b) Spit.
(c) Flatulence.
(d) Urination.

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

3. What does the Caretaker provide as part of lunch?
(a) Nuts.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) Berries.
(d) Beast meat.

4. What does the narrator tell the librarian about himself when she says she wants to know more about him?
(a) He was born by the sea.
(b) He was a soldier.
(c) He likes to collect things.
(d) He likes the rainfall.

5. What does the narrator say the Librarian can never do since she has no mind?
(a) She can never love him.
(b) She can never remember him.
(c) She can never need him.
(d) She can never miss him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that causes the narrator to check each joint and muscle of his body when he wakes at the beginning of Chapter 30?

2. What does the librarian notice about the narrator's statements during dinner?

3. What song does the narrator begin to whistle in the sewer side vent?

4. Which song does the narrator finally begin to play on the accordion?

5. How many men does the narrator first see when he looks out the window to where the men are digging the hole?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the narrator's realization of what the accordion is and how to use it?

2. What is "the encyclopedia wand"?

3. What does the narrator say he plans to do with the Librarian's mind once he has read it?

4. Why does the narrator say looking for the Librarian's mind is not like looking for raindrops?

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

6. 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.

7. Describe the significance of the music in Chapter 36.

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

9. Given what the narrator tells his shadow about why he plans to stay, what do you think he plans to do with his time in the Town?

10. 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.

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