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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 people does the narrator expect will see the second event in his life, of which he is proud, compared to the first more shaming moment?
2. How does the narrator first interact with a female?
3. How does Qfwfq feel about N'ba N'ga?
4. For how long does Qfwfq say he was a dinosaur?
5. How do the New Ones subsist?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the New Ones' perception of dinosaurs change over the time Qfwfq is with them?
2. What causes the narrator's suspicions about the female he encounters?
3. How does Lll react when she first meets N'ba N'ga?
4. Describe Lieutenant Fenimore.
5. In what way, according to the narrator's description, does the existence of a shell bring about eyes and the ability to see?
6. When does the narrator suppose that he might finally meet Ursula, and what does he fear about that potential meeting?
7. What happens to the initial wealth that Qfwfq builds up?
8. What gives Qfwfq an advantage over Dean (k)yK when they bet during the early evolution of the universe?
9. What is the attitude of the New Ones to the Dinosaurs, when Qfwfq first encounters the New Ones after his period of isolation?
10. What does Qfwfq do with the body of the dinosaur the New Ones find?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The stories in COSMICOMICS take place at different points of the universe, where distance and space play an important role. Discuss space and distance in COSMICOMICS.
1) What role does space and distance play in "All at One Point"? How does the confinement of a single point of space compare to the expanded universe and affect characters' perceptions and behaviors?
2) What role does space and distance play in "The Distance of the Moon" and "The Form of Space"? How does distance relate to love and attraction?
3) What role does space and distance play in "Games Without End?" What does the ending of the story say about space and distance?
Essay Topic 2
Throughout COSMICOMICS, characters generate ideas for the first time and do or conceive of things before the things themselves, or integral parts of those things, exist. Discuss these prototypes in COSMICOMICS.
1) How does Qfwfq think about the first sign? What is the significance of the sign being the "first"? How does this prototype differ from later signs?
2) How does the society in the point in "All at One Point" function as a prototype of later societies that will exist in the expanded universe?
3) How do the characters in "How Much Shall We Bet?" create a prototype of betting? How does betting change as the universe develops?
4) Why are there so many prototypes throughout COSMICOMICS? How are they related to each other and to the themes of the story collection?
Essay Topic 3
COSMICOMICS deals with the divisions that exist between the self and others, and the relationship of one's inner self to the society of others outside one's self. Discuss the dichotomy between self and others in COSMICOMICS.
1) How are the characters in "All at One Point" separate from each other and yet unified? What role does the separation between self and others have in quibbling and pettiness? What role does the unification of separate individuals play in the expansion of the point at the end of the story?
2) In "Games without End," how is Pfwfp a reflection of Qfwfq? In what other stories are "others" a reflection of the narrator's self, and to what extent?
3) How are relatives, who share history and genetic makeup, a part of the characters in the story and in some ways an extension of the self?
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