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Q. "All he had to do was keep his finger on the leftward arrow. It was too easy. It was not good. It kept him in a dangerous stasis of nostalgia and regret and horror" (XV.30.104). What is Alan doing here?
Tinder-ing
Binge watching embarrassing things on Netflix
Trolling people on Facebook
Scrolling through pictures
Q. "Because he had no stories of valor, he had almost done this. Because the efforts he'd made toward creating something like a legacy had failed, he had almost done this" (XXVIII.152.279). What has Alan almost done?
Accidentally shot a shepherd boy
Impulse bought one of those pink condos
Made love with Hanne
Lost the contract for Reliant
Q. "Grandeur, grandeur—that was the word he liked. Grandeur and awe and holiness and communion, communion with the outside world" (XXIII.15.195). Who is obsessed with this idea of "grandeur"?
Ruby
Kit
Charlie
Yousef
Q. "They had no interest in manufacturing or the type of person-to-person sales he'd spent his life perfecting. None of them had been even vaguely involved in such things. None of them started, as he had, selling actual objects to actual people" (XVII.30.130). Who is Eggers describing here?
The staff in the Black Box
The MBA students
Yousef and Salem
Brad, Cayley, and Rachel
Q. "People shouldn't live here" (XXVII.74.263). Why does Alan think this about the area around Yousef's ancestral village?
It's a natural catastrophe waiting to happen.
The government is too oppressive.
The patriarchy is overwhelming.
Poverty is rampant.