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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. What is the message in Adrian Veidt's office memo?
(a) Production of nostalgia perfume is to be stepped up.
(b) Nostalgia perfume is to be repackaged.
(c) Nostalgia perfume will be discontinued and replaced.
(d) There needs to be a new advertising campaign for Nostalgia perfume.

2. Who compiled the scrapbook?
(a) Sally Jupiter.
(b) Walter Kovacs.
(c) Silhouette.
(d) Hollis Mason.

3. What is Laurie's reaction to Jon's information about himself?
(a) She thinks he will overcome his problems with her help.
(b) She doesn't believe it and thinks he's pretentious.
(c) She can't fully comprehend it.
(d) She understands and empathises with him.

4. Who organized and paid for the attack on Adrian Veidt?
(a) Pyramid Industries.
(b) Sphenoid Laboratories.
(c) Pyramid Laboratories.
(d) Miramax.

5. Where does the explosion start?
(a) At the offices of Pyramid Industries.
(b) At the Interspatial Laboratories.
(c) At Bernhard's news stand.
(d) In the Institute for Interspatial Studies.

Short Answer Questions

1. The leading article is written by . . . ?

2. Why were Laurie's parents fighting?

3. What function does this section perform in the narrative?

4. What happens when the sailor in The Black Freighter comic finally makes it home?

5. What is the password for Veidt's computer system?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what is going on in the prison.

2. What is the connection between "Blood from the Shoulder of Pallas" and the events in this chapter?

3. How is the importance for Dan of his past costumed hero days conveyed to the reader/responder?

4. What is important about the Veidt Method?

5. How is this issue's rant connected to the plot of the novel?

6. In the context of the novel, what function does this section fulfill?

7. Comment on the structure of this chapter.

8. What is unusual about Sally's response to interviewer questions about her rape by The Comedian?

9. According to Dan Dreiberg, what do scientists lack?

10. Comment on the importance of this chapter for the novel as a whole.

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