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Take our free Noggin quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What is the thematic parallel between Travis’ obsession with Space Invaders and his obsession with Cate?

Both explore the dangers to friendship caused by obsession.

Both explore the positive value of trying to live past lives in the present.

Both explore the positive value of facing the truth about the present rather than living in the past.

Both explore the dangers of trying to live past lives in the present.

2.

The shift of tense in the epilogue suggests that Travis’ perspective on his life has changed in what way?

His head is living in the present while his body is living in the past.

His body and his head are now integrated in the present.

He’s living more in the present than the past.

He’s living more in the past than in the present.

3.

Whose body has Travis’ head been transplanted onto? (from Part 1, Chapters 1 – 4)

Kyle Hagler.

Jeremy Pratt.

Lawrence Ramsey.

Lloyd Saranson.

4.

Why does Kyle insist to Travis that his present sexual orientation is not what he (Kyle) said it was in the past?

He’s trying to show Travis that the past has no effect on the present.

He’s trying to deny who he is and be who he thinks he should be.

He’s trying to deny he ever said what he did to Travis about his orientation.

He’s trying to convince Travis that he (Kyle) is no longer in love with him.

5.

The book explores shifts in meaning between words/ideas/phrases at the end of its chapters and the same words/ideas/phrases used as titles of the immediately following chapter. This stylistic technique functions as what in relation to the experiences (i.e. what was vs. what is) of the central character?

A parallel.

A reversal.

An irony.

A contrast.

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