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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. 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

2. Of what does the center of the Raft consist?
(a) A landing pad for helicopters
(b) A control tower
(c) A bunch of logs and sticks lashed together with heavy duty rope
(d) Rife's aircraft carrier lashed to an oil tanker

3. What quadrant do Hiro and Da5id go to check out?
(a) The Bouncer Quadrant
(b) The Black and White Quadrant
(c) The Rock Star Quadrant
(d) The Snow Crash Quadrant

4. About what new gang does Y.T. hear?
(a) The Griffiths Park Boys
(b) The Parkers
(c) The Falabalas
(d) The Doctors

5. Who does Juanita want Hiro to meet?
(a) L. Bob Rife
(b) Snow Crash
(c) Lagos
(d) Da5id

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of motorcycle did Hiro want?

2. Who's body does Squeaky show to Hiro?

3. What is the drug of choice in the Sacrifice Zone?

4. What limits an avatar's appearance?

5. Who is the common recipient of all donations and founder of the Pearly Gates?

Short Essay Questions

1. Other than Hiro's ability with computers and programming, we see that he has other skills that are revealed in Chapter 11. What are they?

2. Why is the Deliverator so disturbed by the idea that the pizza he delivers might be late?

3. What is atypical of what appears to be a typical drug deal?

4. What does Chapter 37 reveal about the US Government?

5. There are two new additions in Hiro's office within the Metaverse. What are they and what are their functions?

6. Why might a big wig like Uncle Enzo want to meet Y.T. Kourier, and how does he go about arranging such a meeting?

7. What is the Metaverse and how is it viewed by those who spend the most amount of time there?

8. For the first time in this book, the effects of the drug Snow Crash are revealed to Hiro. What are they?

9. What is revealed in Y.T.'s relationship to her mom?

10. Uncle Enzo takes a real liking to Y.T. in Chapter 21. Why?

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