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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Squeaky reveal about Raven?
(a) That he is T-Bone's brother
(b) That he is the new leader of the Crips
(c) That he is gay
(d) That he is a Sovereign and a nuclear power

2. What is the High Priest carrying as he approaches Y.T.?
(a) A metal briefcase
(b) A syringe full of blood
(c) A peeled and cored red apple
(d) A seemingly empty syringe

3. Who does Y.T. need to meet?
(a) Hiro
(b) Da5id
(c) Ng
(d) The armless avatar

4. Who accepts Hiro's invitation to perform?
(a) The Crips
(b) Sushi K
(c) Raven
(d) Squeaky

5. What attaches itself to the Deliverator and ends up helping him?
(a) A GPS device
(b) A new fence
(c) The Kourier Y.T. with an electromagnetic harpoon
(d) A business card for a new job

6. Who or what comes to see that the job is accomplished on time?
(a) The media van
(b) The competition
(c) The timekeeper
(d) The Mafia copter

7. Where do Hiro Protagonist and Vitaly Chernobyl live?
(a) In a house on acreage in Oregon
(b) In a basement suite in Sacramento
(c) In a twenty-by-thirty foot U-Stor-It unit in Inglewood, California
(d) In a high rise in Los Angeles

8. What does the large white man ask of Hiro?
(a) If he can get a light for his cigarette
(b) If Hiro can get him a glass of water
(c) What his ethnic background is
(d) If Hiro can give him directions to Albuquerque

9. Where can the avatars not pass through each other?
(a) On main street
(b) When they don't have enough credits.
(c) In The Black Sun
(d) When they are married.

10. Who does Y.T. find herself working for for the first time?
(a) Fedland
(b) The Mafia
(c) The Enforcers
(d) The Government

11. What is Ng's specialty?
(a) Computer hacking
(b) Neurological research
(c) High tech security
(d) Computer piracy

12. How does Y.T. escape the Fed guys?
(a) She tells them a long and boring story.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She sprays them with bullets.
(d) She issues a command to her uniform that shocks them via her wrist cuffs.

13. What important job does Y.T. accomplish in time for the Mafia?
(a) Whacks the competition
(b) Writes their autobiography
(c) Files for insurance
(d) Delivers the pizza

14. What is the Snow Crash?
(a) Distilled blood serum laced with cocaine
(b) A computer virus
(c) Cocaine
(d) Distilled water from a fountain in Venezuela

15. How do you kill an avatar in the Metaverse?
(a) You insert a virus.
(b) You pour water on it.
(c) You cut off its head.
(d) You stab it in the heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Hiro that his brain is vulnerable to nam-shub?

2. Where is the package Y.T. picks up destined for?

3. At first glance, the Deliverator appears to be more like what?

4. What did Lagos think Sumerian gods were?

5. What is Hiro offered before going into the Black Sun?

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