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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the respective philosophies of Chancre and Lever?
(a) Chancre is an Empiricist and Lever is an Intuitionist.
(b) Lever and Chancre are both Empiricists.
(c) Lever and Chancre are both Intuitionists.
(d) Lever is an Empiricist and Chancre is an Intuitionist.

2. Who questions Chuck Gould about Lila Mae?
(a) Burt Arbogast.
(b) Frank Chancre.
(c) Elisha Otis.
(d) Raymond Coombs.

3. What does Lila Mae learn about Fulton's background?
(a) He was secretly married to Marie Claire Rogers.
(b) He used to be an Empiricist.
(c) He was really a black man.
(d) He plagiarized his book, Theoretical Elevators.

4. What revolutionary design innovation did Elisha Otis bring to the elevator industry?
(a) The Black Box.
(b) The counterweight.
(c) The safety brake.
(d) The double door.

5. What does Natchez want to do in Down: Part Two?
(a) Get to the bottom of the Fanny Briggs mystery.
(b) Take revenge on Johnny Shush for murdering someone close to him.
(c) Find the Black Box and reveal the truth about Fulton's identity.
(d) Finish writing the third volume of Fulton's book.

6. What does Otis' innovation do for the city?
(a) It marks the arrival of "verticality."
(b) It marks the beginning of Intuitionism.
(c) It marks the arrival of the Black Box.
(d) It marks the arrival of the "second ascension."

7. What does Reed show Lila Mae in Down: Part Two?
(a) The third volume of Theoretical Elevators.
(b) The plans for the Black Box.
(c) An advance copy of Lift Magazine.
(d) A letter from Shush proving that Lila was framed.

8. What is true about James Fulton at the beginning of the novel?
(a) He has gone into hiding.
(b) He has been dead for 20 years.
(c) He was on his deathbed.
(d) He is running for Elevator Guild president.

9. Who does Lila Mae visit?
(a) James Fulton.
(b) Marie Claire Rogers.
(c) Frank Chancre.
(d) Ben Urich.

10. How does Johnny Shush abduct Lila Mae?
(a) One of his men replace Lila Mae's driver.
(b) One of his men traps her in the house before she can leave.
(c) He does it himself to make sure no mistakes are made.
(d) One of his men grabs her and forces her into the car.

11. What is Mr. Reed's connection to James Fulton?
(a) He was one of Fulton's early students and converts to intuitionism.
(b) He is James Fulton's half-brother.
(c) He was Fulton's academic rival in their early days at the Institute.
(d) He published Fulton's earliest works on Intuitionism.

12. What does Mr. Reed think has happened regarding the elevator crash in Down: Part One?
(a) That Lila Mae intentionally arranged the crash.
(b) That Lila Mae has been set up to take the blame for the elevator crash.
(c) That Lila Mae was incompetent and caused the accident.
(d) That a design flaw in the elevator caused the crash.

13. Who abducts Urich?
(a) James Fulton.
(b) Elisha Otis.
(c) John and Jim.
(d) Mr. Reed.

14. Who does Jim and John work for?
(a) Orville Lever.
(b) Johnny Shush.
(c) Frank Chancre.
(d) James Fulton.

15. What does Chancre deny in Down: Part Two?
(a) Sabotaging the Fanny Briggs elevator.
(b) Kidnapping Ben Urich.
(c) Trying to buy the election.
(d) Having the Black Box plans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chancre promise the media?

2. What is Empiricism?

3. What does Lila Mae decide to do at the end of Down: Part One?

4. Who is the "screaming man"?

5. Who questions and tries to make a deal with Lila Mae in Down: Part Two?

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