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

2. What surprises Lucien about what happened after Charlies's death?
(a) His in-laws called him more often than before.
(b) He did not commit suicide.
(c) His friends grew distant from him.
(d) He still wanted to have parties.

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

4. What is Russell's business relationship to Amity?
(a) He is her lawyer.
(b) He is her book agent.
(c) He is an employee of her P.R. firm.
(d) He works with her at the stock exchange.

5. What does Amity tell Nathaniel is happening to Passivityman?
(a) He is becoming fearful and mediocre.
(b) He is becoming passive-aggressive.
(c) He is becoming a sell-out.
(d) He is becoming lazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lucien is in the gallery imagining that he is with Charlie, what does he promise her?

2. Besides their minimal rent, what task are Nathaniel and his roommates performing in exchange for a place to live?

3. How does the narrator characterize Miss Meuller's comment, on page 22, that Lucien is a "naughty boy"?

4. Which of these is one of the world's "three great religions" according to people like Miss Muller?

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

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