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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "Farewell" through "Waiting".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Miss Meuller's comment, on page 22, that Lucien is a "naughty boy"?
(a) Flirtatious.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Gleeful.
(d) Condescending.

2. What ridiculous detail does Nathaniel give in his description of the last months of 1999?
(a) Businesses desperately trying to teach their staffs how to do math without computerized cash registers.
(b) Cults announcing that aliens would come to Earth at midnight on New Year's Eve.
(c) Preppers sealing their families into shelters underground.
(d) Celebrity clairvoyants making wild predictions in the tabloids.

3. What has changed in Lucien's attitude about art since Charlie's death?
(a) He does not care about it the way he once did.
(b) He finds most art too "young" for his taste now.
(c) He now prefers much darker, more serious art.
(d) He wants to create it, not just sell it.

4. To what does Lucien compare the Earth on page 39?
(a) A marble.
(b) A basketball.
(c) A chess piece.
(d) A sponge.

5. What does Lucien think about himself and his friends, in the wake of the September 11 attacks?
(a) They should pay more attention to their friends and families.
(b) They will never recover.
(c) They have been self-absorbed.
(d) They make the world worse just by living in it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of language is Madison using on page 41 that upsets Amity?

2. What does Lucien think that words like "patriotism, democracy, loyalty, freedom" refer to (33)?

3. What later part of the narrative is Lucien tied to when, on pages 16-17, the narrator says that "It's as if he's got some part that's simply worn out and needs replacing"?

4. What is Lucien thinking of when he thinks about a "poison syrup" (34)?

5. To whom does Nathaniel imagine telling the story of the Y2K computer issue?

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