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100
The manager of the Ilium Works.
Who is Dr. Paul Proteus?
100
The reason Paul drives into Homestead in chapter 3.
What is needing to get a bottle of Irish Whiskey for Finnerty?
100
The setting of Player Piano.
What is Ilium, NY?
100
The machine that loses to Paul in chapter 5.
What is Checker Charley?
100
The supercomputer.
What is IPECAC?
200
The wife of the manager of the Ilium Works (and his former secretary).
Who is Anita?
200
ENIAC represents this industrial revolution.
What is the third?
200
The principal antagonist of Player Piano.
What is automation as a result of technological advancement?
200
The reason Shepherd tries to sabotage Paul.
What is his desire for the Pittsburgh job?
200
The management team of the Eastern Division.
Who are Kroner & Baer?
300
A former member of the National Industrial Planning Board in Washington, D.C.
Who is Ed Finnerty?
300
Finnerty's surprising news.
What is having quit his job on the NIPB in D.C.?
300
A type of conflict that Paul is facing (and a description).
What is person vs. person (Anita), person vs. self (mixed feelings about his job), or person vs. society (mixed feelings about automation)?
300
The incident that lifts the spirts of Reeks & Wrecks workers in chapter 8.
What is fixing Paul's Plymouth?
300
The contraband in the glovebox of Paul's Plymouth.
What is a pistol?
400
A retired machinist who Paul met (coincidentally) in Homestead.
Who is Rudy Hertz?
400
The only two employment options for regular people.
What are the Reconstruction & Reclamation Corps and the army?
400
The point of view in Player Piano.
What is third person omniscient?
400
The reason Dr. Ewing J. Halyard is frustrated with the Shah.
What is the Shah's insistence that Reeks & Wrecks and soldiers are, in fact, slaves?
400
Paul's rival who wants the Pittsburgh job.
Who is Dr. Lawson Shepherd?
500
Paul's current secretary and the only female employee of the Works.
Who is Dr. Katharine Finch?
500
The annual meeting of managers and engineers.
What is the Meadows?
500
The symbolism of the bridge over the Iroquois River.
What is the class division between Homesteaders and managers/engineers?
500
The main reason Paul marries Anita.
What is her fake pregnancy?
500
The Shah's term for 'slave'.
What is 'takaru'?