Odds Against Tomorrow Quiz

Take our free Odds Against Tomorrow 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!

Who is Elsa Bruner? (from Part One – Brugada)

The instructor of the class in which Mitchell is sitting when the Seattle Earthquake strikes.

A television journalist reporting on the Seattle Earthquake.

A young woman with a fatal heart condition in one of Mitchell’s undergraduate classes.

A young woman with a fatal lung condition in one of Mitchell’s undergraduate classes.

What is the most likely reason that Future World’s clients want to speak with Mitchell in Part Three, Future Days? (from Part Three, Future Days – pages 201 - 229)

They see him as having been responsible for their businesses being destroyed, and want to express their anger at him.

They see him as having been right about the earthquake that devastated New York, and believe will be able to help them protect themselves from other disasters in the future.

They see him as having been right about the flood that devastated New York, and believe he will be able to help them protect themselves from other disasters in the future.

They see him as more reliable than Charnoble, and want to set him up in his own company.

What does Jane seem to mean when she asks Mitchell why he is breathing “like that” in Part Two, Sternman? (from Part Two – Sternman, pages 160 - 180)

That his breathing has changed because he is upset by what he saw at the Statue of Liberty.

That she thinks he is having a heart attack.

That his breathing has changed because he is upset by what he saw in Grand Central Station.

That she thinks he has asthma.

What is in the coffin-shaped box that Mitchell thinks at first was shipped to him by mistake? (from Part Two – Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud, pages 95 – 129)

A scale model of the residence community he is thinking of moving into.

An artistically decorated canoe.

An artistically decorated coffin.

A scale model of the Zukorminium complex owned and developed by his father.

What is Ticonderoga? (from Part One – The Futurist, pages 68 – 91)

The self-sufficient farm, or compound, where Mitchell dreams of creating a life for himself.

A rival risk-management company.

The name of the building to which Future World moves its offices.

The self-sufficient farm, or compound, where Elsa is creating a life for herself.