Multiple Choice

1. D. Tasties (Chapter 1)

2. C. 3Ds (hologram movies) (Chapter 4)

3. B. That he is about to have a grand mal seizure (Chapter 8)

4. D. Robert Frost (Chapter 13)

5. A. A person who illegally transports probes from one latch to another (Chapter 17)

6. C. Because Bean wanted the runner to deliver news to Spaz that she was dying (Chapter 20)

7. C. A human skull (Chapter 22)

8. B. They were modified to be able to tolerate toxic gases (Chapter 25)

9. A. The black market probe trade between Eden and Urb is a potential commentary on illegal drug trafficking (Chapter 25-27)

10. D. Dictatorship and democracy (Chapters 28-30)

Long-Answer

1. Proovs stand out from normals because of their statuesque height, their beauty, and their overall good health. They prize perfection and disdain normals because they remind them of the existence of imperfection. (Chapter 4)

2. At the end of the novel, as Ryter dies at the hands of the Bangers, he tells Spaz that now that his pages have been burned, Spaz is, himself, the “last book in the universe.