Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
First Year Seminar 1999: The Future
Fall 1999
Michael Drout

Quiz 4: Postrel and Stephenson

(ten possible points)

1. Define a "fertile verge"?

2. What is actually in the Snow Crash drug?

3. What is a nam-shub?

4. Who is Ng?

(3 pts) What does Postrel say about the development of reggae music and how it relates to her thesis?

(3 pts) What is glossolalia and how does it fit into the plot of Snow Crash?