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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Howie have fantasies about in Chapter 1?
(a) 7-Eleven clerk.
(b) Tina.
(c) L.
(d) Papa Gino's clerk.

2. Howie compares the grooves on the escalator steps to those one __________.
(a) Shades.
(b) Roads.
(c) Train tracks.
(d) Records.

3. In a Chapter 11 footnote, Howie comments on the new tightness of ______ .
(a) Straw covers.
(b) New gloves.
(c) Sandwich wrappers.
(d) Socks.

4. Howie thinks ______ signals to the world that he has a rich, busy life.
(a) Briefcase.
(b) Car.
(c) Bags.
(d) Suit.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 12, Howie says he is standing in a _______ pose on the escalator.
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Rodin's "The Thinker".
(c) Michael Jordan.
(d) George Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. What show does Howie order a transcript from because he disagreed with one of the interviewees?

2. What product in the CVS does Howie consider to reflect different social cultures?

3. What does Howie describe in great detail in the first paragraph of the book?

4. Howie's seventh major advance has to do with the purchase of a ________.

5. Howie says all of these have gone through disorienting changes EXCEPT one.

(see the answer key)

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