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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 refers to an array of data ordered such that individual items can be located with a single index or subscript?
(a) Theorem.
(b) Vector.
(c) Hypothesis.
(d) Equation.

2. What is the name of the capital city of Universe 31?
(a) New Angeles City/Old Mexico City.
(b) Space Hub Miami.
(c) New Los Angeles/Lost Tokyo-2.
(d) San Francisco 4.

3. What does Charles see interacting with his mother when he visits his family's home in Chapter 13?
(a) His father.
(b) A sexbot.
(c) A group of cats.
(d) A hologram of himself.

4. A book excerpt, "reality, in relation to," says Universe 31 is what percent reality at the core?
(a) 5.
(b) 17.
(c) 65.
(d) 44.

5. In what person is the book written?
(a) Second.
(b) Third.
(c) First.
(d) Fourth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to an expression or a proposition, often algebraic, asserting the equality of two quantities?

2. Charles describes his job as part of what industry in Chapter 8?

3. What customers want, Charles says, is to repeatedly experience the _____ moments of their lives repeatedly.

4. In Chapter 9, Charles says time is a machine for converting pain into what that cannot be changed?

5. Chapter 3 begins with the protagonist thinking about his father reading a storybook to him when he was what age?

Short Essay Questions

1. What robotic services are described in the excerpt "convenience, particular sadness of"?

2. What is significant about the narrator's memory of his father in Chapter 12?

3. What is metaphorical about the narrator's visit to see his mother in Chapter 13?

4. Who does the narrator describe in Chapter 7? How does he communicate with this person?

5. How does the narrator describe being in Loop City in Chapter 11?

6. How does Chapter 3 begin? What is significant about time travel in this chapter?

7. What does the narrator say his mother taught him in Chapter 13? What is significant about this?

8. How is the style of the book established through the table of contents and opening quotes?

9. Why is TAMMY crying in Chapter 2?

10. What has caused the problem with the narrator's ship in Chapter 10? What is symbolic about this?

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