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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. As a child, Howie loved_____.
(a) Trolley cars.
(b) Airport luggage carriers.
(c) Freight trains.
(d) Tugboats.

2. What has Howie taken to be repaired by blind people for L?
(a) Chairs.
(b) Watch.
(c) Vase.
(d) Shoes.

3. When Howie moves into an apartment he discovers the therapeutic properties of what?
(a) Crying.
(b) Sweeping.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Shouting.

4. What piece of office equipment does Howie feel has lagged behind other innovations by ten years?
(a) Copiers.
(b) Hole punchers.
(c) Phones.
(d) Staplers.

5. What is Howie's first footnote in Chapter 7 about?
(a) Cars.
(b) Shirts.
(c) Polaroids.
(d) Watches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of Howie's escalator memories are from childhood?

2. What is supposed to be such a common sight that office workers don't comment about it?

3. What does Howie spend considerable time thinking about on the subway?

4. Howie's first reason that it is okay for brain cells to die is that it's part of a necessary ______.

5. Who else rode the escalator with Howie and his mom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Howie's thoughts on shopping bags?

2. What point is Howie trying to make in his footnote about doorknobs?

3. What are Howie's observations about shoes and feet at work?

4. What observations does Howie make about straws while he was at Papa Gino's?

5. Howie does Howie's shoelace break?

6. What compelling realization does Howie remember when driving behind a garbage truck when he is thirty?

7. What does breaking his shoelace remind Howie of?

8. What does Howie believe to be the four reasons why it is good for brain cells to die?

9. What does Howie mean by "vibratiuncles of comparison"?

10. How does Howie describe the experience of opening a package of shirts from the dry cleaners?

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