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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sylvia asks Lizzie to take a job taking what action on her behalf?
(a) Grading papers.
(b) Writing grants.
(c) Answering emails.
(d) Taking dictation.

2. When Lizzie invokes a saying usually applied to the Holocaust, what creature does she use to direct the quote's focus toward humans' destruction of the planet?
(a) Kelp.
(b) Coral.
(c) Sea anenome.
(d) Elephant.

3. What products does Ben create at work?
(a) Instruction manuals.
(b) Microchips.
(c) Documentaries.
(d) Video games.

4. Lizzie takes comfort in her realization that "No one's worrying about" (18) what celestial object?
(a) Mars.
(b) The Milky Way.
(c) The sun.
(d) The moon.

5. In which state do Ben's parents currrently live?
(a) New York.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Maine.
(d) Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. The townspeople featured in the epigraph of Weather: A Novel declare themselves to be what entities?

2. Chapter One of the novel takes place on the cusp of which two seasons?

3. What was Catherine's drug of choice before she got sober?

4. How many days of school are left for Eli by the time Chapter One comes to a close?

5. Sylvia asserts at her conference in "the heartland" that which creatures are "nothing particularly special" (58)?

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