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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. To what does D-503 compare the feeling in his ribs?
(a) Iron rods.
(b) Piercing needles.
(c) A cage.
(d) Suffocation.

2. What is the number of the narrator?
(a) D-503.
(b) Johnny 5.
(c) D-500.
(d) Yevgeny Zamyatin.

3. What kind of dress does I-330 put on when D-503 visits her room for the first time?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Black.
(c) Silk.
(d) Orange.

4. What is to be the Integral's first cargo?
(a) The construction crew.
(b) Newborn babies.
(c) Two of each type of animal.
(d) Writings extolling the virtues of the One State.

5. Who does the narrator call "the greatest genius of the ancients?"
(a) Kant.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Taylor.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does D-503 refer as an error by God?

2. What does D-503 say about his first ride in the hidden elevator?

3. What is the name of the newspaper that the narrator refers to in the first lines of the novel?

4. According to what D-503 tells O-90 when discussing a gift that she has given him, what concept can be either good or bad?

5. Who does D-503 believe he is bound to by an unseen cord?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does D-503 see his relationships with R-13 and O-90?

2. What is the Gas Bell?

3. When does D-503 realize, for the first time, that he is jealous of other men with I-330?

4. What is the One State's perception of love?

5. What does D-503 realize that his writings for the Integral have become?

6. What does the narrator mean when he refers to his "shaggy self?"

7. When, according to D-503, does man cease to be a savage?

8. What secret does D-503 discover about the Ancient House when he visits it alone?

9. How are members of the One State identified?

10. How does the narrator describe the men working on the construction of the Integral?

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