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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. What does Adam draw on the map he gives the sailors?

2. What is lacking in Cavendish's room at Aurora House?

3. Sonmi-451 works as a dinery server in what place?

4. What day does Yoona try and escape the dinery?

5. What is the name of the book dealer that Frobisher goes to meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Professor Mephi?

2. What is the "Union" in Sonmi's world?

3. What is the question Sixsmith asks his television about the safety of the HYDRA project?

4. What is Dr. Goose doing when Adam meets him?

5. Describe Kim's lab.

6. What does Sixsmith do with the key to his expose?

7. How does Smoke kill Sixsmith?

8. Who is Adam Ewing?

9. What does Cavendish own?

10. How is the story of "An Orison of Sonmi-451" told?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using specific examples from the story, how are all the stories tied together? What makes them relate to one another so that they are in one book?

Essay Topic 2

How is the relationship between Frobisher and Ayrs like, and unlike, other relationships between characters in the book? Use specific examples of other characters' relationships to support your answer to this question.

Essay Topic 3

What does the word, "prescient" mean? How does the meaning of the word fit in with the name of the tribe, "Prescients"? What implications does this have for the story? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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