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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 name of a "modern" song that the narrator listens to?
(a) "I Need You."
(b) "Unrequited Love."
(c) "Science is Sexy."
(d) "Pythagoras' Trousers."

2. What term does D-503 say that he will use the next time he sees I-330 after he has not heard from her for a few days?
(a) Baby.
(b) Thou.
(c) Love.
(d) Angel.

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

4. What color is the liqueur that I-330 drinks?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Clear.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

5. What does D-503 claim he is producing instead of an ode to the One State?
(a) A memoir.
(b) An obituary.
(c) An adventure story.
(d) A lie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of one of the "famous mathematical couplets" of the One State?

2. What term does D-503 use to describe his hands?

3. What do the citizens of the One State use pink coupons for?

4. What do the citizens of the One State call their uniforms?

5. What is R-13 given the task of turning into a poem?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Integral being built?

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

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

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

5. How does D-503 feel about being followed by S?

6. What is the Gas Bell?

7. How does the narrator describe the character known as O-90?

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

9. How are members of the One State identified?

10. How does the narrator describe the character called I-330?

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