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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days passed between Simon’s crime and the beginning of his solitary confinement?

2. As which of the following does Wright label Thurwar?

3. Which of the following had been a patsy for the bloodsport organizers?

4. Which of the following is Simon’s chief tormentor?

5. What is Rave Bear’s real name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the thesis of “Nowhere Near as Bad” in the novel?

2. What is the importance of the fight against ReckLass to Thurwar’s career?

3. What had been the organizing principle under which Sunset Harkless had led his combatant group?

4. How are bloodsport competitors restrained in the arenas where their fights occur?

5. What reasons does Staxxx give for her delay in telling Thurwar she had killed Sunset?

6. Why is Wright hurt by Thurwar’s usual reticence?

7. For what crime was Staxxx convicted?

8. Why does Wright accept Thurwar’s initial refusal of a nickname?

9. Why does Mari value Nile?

10. Why does Thurwar regard her legs as “her saving grace”?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Chain-Gang All-Stars. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Readerly attention also focuses on the remarks that “Just ‘cause you enslaved don’t make you a slave. You can’t ever be that” (70). To what extent does the novel bear out those remarks? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Chain-Gang All-Stars? By which groups? Why?

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