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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 the girl at the snack bar play with in anti-gravity?
2. Why can't Titus discover where he is?
3. What does Titus call a bow tie?
4. What does Titus do at the end of 'Awake'?
5. What does Titus realize about the painting?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe why the girls help Quendy with her hair, and why Titus finds this important.
2. What does the text of 'Awake' indicate about how much the teenagers rely on the feed?
3. Titus mentions they will be offline for a while, so the police can pull off information to use against the hacker. Do you think it would be fair to pull data from a computer in your brain to use, without your express permission?
4. Explain the text within these chapters that is in italics. What are they, and what is your impression, thus far, of a feed?
5. Explain why Titus doesn't want to try and cheer Violet up when she cries in the hospital.
6. Titus reflects that, without the feed, their "heads felt real empty" (pg. 46). What is your response?
7. Describe Titus' father.
8. Describe what life was like, according to Titus, before the feed, and what this means to him.
9. Describe how the teenagers are attacked.
10. What do you think happened in 'Nudging'? Was Titus dreaming, or were the police or the hacker group sifting through his feed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In "Feed", many of the teens completely lose their individuality as the feed pushes them to conform to a specific marketing profile. This is symbolized at the end of the novel, when hipsters are hit with Nostalgic Feedback. Explain what Nostalgic Feedback is, and what it does. Next, explain how people like Quendy and Loga completely lose their own identities when they conform to the marketing concept. Finally, explain Violet's point, that there is a spiral between people and marketers that makes everything and everyone more basic and simple. What does she mean by this?
Essay Topic 2
M.T. Anderson makes a strong argument against consumerism in the novel, as his characters find themselves mere puppets to economic materialism. Choose two examples of anti consumerism in the novel, and discuss them. What is the example? How does it argue against consumerism? What is M.T. Anderson trying to say about consumerism? What is your opinion of the portrayal of consumerism in the novel?
Essay Topic 3
"Feed" has been labeled by some as an ironic satire. How does the author use satire to make points in the novel? How does he use irony? Do you feel this method is successful, in this case? Why or why not? Overall, what do you think Anderson is saying about our relationship to technology, media, and consumerism? Does his use of satire allow this point to be made convincingly? Why or why not?
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