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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Nathaniel Recalls the Miracle" through "Home.".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Celebrity clairvoyants making wild predictions in the tabloids.
(c) Cults announcing that aliens would come to Earth at midnight on New Year's Eve.
(d) Preppers sealing their families into shelters underground.

2. Where did Nathaniel meet Madison, Amity, and Lyle?
(a) In high school.
(b) At his first job in New York.
(c) In college.
(d) At a bar near Matsumoto's loft.

3. Why is Lyle sad all of the time?
(a) He is heavily in debt.
(b) His boyfriend has moved to London.
(c) He and his boyfriend have broken up.
(d) He is homesick and hates New York.

4. To what does Nathaniel compare the sight of Manhattan from Matsumoto's loft?
(a) A glass of champagne.
(b) Van Gogh's Starry Night.
(c) A miniature city from his childhood train set.
(d) The circuit board of a computer.

5. Of all of the things that Nathaniel can see from Matsumoto's loft, which is most important to him?
(a) The Empire State Building.
(b) The Statue of Liberty.
(c) The World Trade Center.
(d) The Chrysler Building.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nathaniel say history teaches us?

2. What does Lucien end up saying to his assistant on page 8 when he wants to give her a piece of advice?

3. What is Nathaniel's job in the narrative present?

4. What does Isaac do for a living?

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

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