English 190C
Mr. Tanaka

READING QUIZ 

Answer True (T) or False (F)

VIRTUAL LIGHT

1. The novel takes place in Northern/Southern California after a gigantic
comet has hit the earth and killed half the population.

2. Chevette is an Asia-American woman who works for a courier company.

3. The glasses Reidel is looking for have data for an AIDS vaccine
developed by a Dr. Shapely.

4. In the world Gibson portrays, there is no clear boundary between
security companies and credit coporations.

5. Deathstar is the name of a huge comet that wiped out half of Russia
which results in many former KGB agents coming to the US looking for work.

NEUOROMANCER

1. The novel begins in a city in Japan.

2. Case and Molly go undercover by traveling around the world with a
race rock band named the Panthern Moderns.

3. Freeside is an area in Geneva where the Tessier-Ashpools spend their
summers.

4. Wintermute is an AI designed by Lady 3 Jane to preserve the memory
of her mother.  Armitage is one of her mother's former lovers who wants
to see Wintermute destroyed in order to get revenge for Lady 3 Jane's
mother's having left him for Peter Rivera.

5. In the end, Case decides to side with a Brazilian AI named Neuomancer
against Wintermute because he is offered more money and a chance to have
the explosive devices in his organs removed.  Case, Finn and Armitage
succeed in breaking the ice protecting Wintermute and have the AI
transported to Straylight, a radioactive waste dumping zone in orbit
around the earth.

GATE TO WOMEN'S COUNTRY

1. All of the women in Marthatown must give up their sons with the
exception of the women who serve on the Council.

2. All of the women who live in Marthatown share exactly the same
views towards the roles of men and women, e.g. Stavia and Myra.

3. Joshua, like all servitors, was sexually impotent and totally lacking
in any of the basic physical skills that warriors were adept at.
Instead, he chose to develop his mind as well as his skills in weaving
and shopping in the open-air market.

4. The Marthatown Council insisted that the only women who would be
permitted to participate in the yearly play were those who did not
question the codes and rules regulating Women's Country.  In addition,
since men were strictly forbidden to perform with women, men's roles
were all played by women.

5. The last line of the novel is: THE GODS HAVE DECREED THAT WOMEN'S
COUNTRY IS PARADISE, HEAVEN ON EARTH.

SIDESHOW

1. Zasper saved Fringe Dorwalk by hiding her in his plane.  He then took
her to Tolerance where he raised her to become an Enforcer.

2. The twins went to a Roman Catholic school on Earth.

3. The character named Jorie that Fringe encounters is not real.  She
is a creation of the Arbai device.

4. Tepper states that the evil in the Core comes from Satan and other
demonic powers generated by the dinkajins who are the electronic
counterparts of Lucifer.  They create situations all over Panubi.

5. At the end of the novel, Zasper and Fringe are killed by Boramus.
But Boramus is then killed by the Arbai, who then become the benevolent
rulers of Elsewhere.