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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: Experiments in Rocking - Chapter 20: The Mission.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drink does Sebastian experience for the first time to accompany his first grilled cheese sandwich ever?
(a) A cola.
(b) A grape soda.
(c) A strawberry soda.
(d) A ginger ale.

2. Buckminster Fuller thought that the largest problem with the planet Earth was that it did not come with what?
(a) A caretaker.
(b) An instruction booklet.
(c) A maid.
(d) An implosion button.

3. What event at Jared's house does Sebastian say stops time for him entirely?
(a) Nana calling on the phone.
(b) Feedback from their instruments.
(c) Janice entering the room.
(d) Meredith entering the room.

4. What does Nana cite as the reason that she had not attended Buckminster Fuller's funeral?
(a) She had missed her flight.
(b) She had been angry at him for dying.
(c) She had not been invited.
(d) She had been too grief-stricken.

5. In Buckminster Fuller's most famous quote about religion, what had he said about God?
(a) God is at the heart of trigonometry.
(b) God is a verb, not a noun.
(c) God is dead.
(d) God is within us all.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the back of the tee shirts that Jared makes for the band members, what is the stick figure wearing?

2. How long had it actually taken to receive a heart for Jared's heart transplant?

3. What is different about Sebastian and Nana's home in relation to the other homes in town?

4. What chord does Jared tell Sebastian is the best guitar chord of all?

5. One of Buckminster Fuller's guiding principles says, "I will forge my journey" in a particular way "to keep accepting and totally boneheaded notions from blinding me to truth" (7). What is that the particular way the principle says one's journey should be forged?

(see the answer key)

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