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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Context" through "Continuity".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is one of the world's "three great religions" according to people like Miss Muller?
(a) Mormonism.
(b) Islam.
(c) Animism.
(d) Buddhism.

2. When he is a young adult, what does Nathaniel think about moving to New York?
(a) It is too crowded and busy.
(b) He will not be able to meet the right woman there.
(c) His parents would be upset.
(d) He is not worthy.

3. What does Nathaniel say history teaches us?
(a) There are too many variables for humans to be effective at thinking ahead.
(b) Systems and institutions favor the powerful by their very nature.
(c) Great people rise to prominence regardless of their circumstances.
(d) If we do not study the past, we will inevitably repeat unhelpful patterns.

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

5. Besides their minimal rent, what task are Nathaniel and his roommates performing in exchange for a place to live?
(a) They are repainting the loft.
(b) They take care of Matsumoto's cats.
(c) They collect the rent from Matsumoto's other tenants.
(d) They sort through and forward Matsumoto's mail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Passivityman doing when the reader first encounters him?

2. What is the first thing that Lucien did when the World Trade Center was attacked?

3. What surprises Lucien about what happened after Charlies's death?

4. After Charlie, Rose, and Isaac, who is the next person that Lucien imagines has come to see him in the gallery?

5. What does Nathaniel say that ceremonial occasions remind us about?

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