 What does the reader learn from Lane's inability to identify a flag he sees flying outside a tower?
Raging , Trooper Lane hovered three thousand feet above Tammany Square. The humming paragrav-paks embedded beneath his shoulder blades held him motionless above Newyork's three administrative towers. They don't teach them about their own city, that they'll be fighting for. Two black paragrav-boats whirred along the translucent underside of Newyork's anti-missile force-shield, the Shell. "Lashing police with his vibray," said the announcer, "Lane broke through the cordon surrounding Manhattan Armory. Lane's mailed hand snapped open a pouch at his belt. The force-bomb "exploded"—swelled or inflated, really, but with the speed of a blast. It shaded the view from his window and re-entered the tower wall just below.
 That he is not well-informed on general politics
 That he is colorblind  That he wants to abstain from political conversations  That he knows his city's flag but not those of other American cities  That he is not well-informed on general politics